Rahul B (@[email protected])

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SportsBall takes a unique approach to sharing their sports data viz -- timelapse video showing them hand-drawing each week's viz, with narration on top. Worth a watch to spark yourself thinking harder about how you can try something new. 👏🏽 instagram.com/_sportsball/re…

New @media_cloud based research from friends: 5M news articles on healthcare R&D in 🇰🇪🇳🇬🇿🇦 show patterns of coverage on new developments, prioritized diseases, stakeholders, and digital health. ajic.wits.ac.za/article/view/2… @Code4Africa

Had a wonderful time at the @carsoncenterunl / @noysan data art jam yesterday! The amazing space inspired attendees to build creative data sculptures that reimagined how we communicate with information. Some notes on my blog dataculture.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/UNL…

Profs: teaching data storytelling this spring? Consider assigning a chp from my new Community Data book on a bigger & better toolbox for data non-vis. Available to academic libraries online in Oxford Academic. Drop me a line if you want specific recs. Here's an emoji outline!

All the videos from the Computation + Journalism Symposium @nujournalism hosted last year are online: @InternetDemocracyInitiative/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@InternetDemoc… Abstracts and papers archived too: cplusj2024.github.io

This Onion piece will be living rent-free in my brain for a while: theonion.com/it-is-journali…

So excited to be speaking at the @carsoncenterunl Data Storytelling Workshop & Data Art Jam this weekend in Nebraska . Hope to see you there for workshops, experience, talks, and fun! go.unl.edu/data-storytell… @noysan

I come from a family authors -- my grandfather, dad & brother -- but I think I'm the first to recreate my book cover in LEGO bricks 🤣 How'd I do? Rethink your data storytelling with some un-visualization. "Community Data" eBook & pre-order links at communitydatabook.com

Here's your end-of-year Journalism and AI updates, assembled by our team of @storybench reporters: storybench.org/winter-ai-jour…

@media_cloud Chart: datawrapper.de/_/T1GFT/ Code: github.com/dataculturegro…

Today's data-bite: use of Twitter embeds seems to be decreasing in US National news, mirroring overall usage drop by readers and journalists (using @media_cloud data). We'll see where this shift goes next year...

Always a joy chat with @abmakulec about creative data visualization, this time centered around my "Community Data" book. Thanks for having me @DataVizSociety 🙏🏽 Missed the livestream? Recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=dhu_s_…

US national media covering Thompson killing 300x more than Colino. Which do you think is a greater threat to the country: targeted healthcare CEO shooting, or killing of a teen for not speaking English? 🤬 abcnews.go.com/US/migrant-tee…

Can AI help restore trust in a world of worry? At the "UN Human Security at 30" event I shared how community-driven tech can empower citizens and redefine human security from feminist & grassroots perspectives. Wrote up reflections at dataculture.northeastern.edu/2024/12/01/un-…

Weekend (media researcher) read: recently co-published a pre-print evaluating how author extraction libraries perform on a global set of online news articles. Short story: *Go-readability & Trafilatura did well, but it totally depends on lang* @adbarbaresi dataculture.northeastern.edu/2024/10/30/pre…

Happy to be included in this excellent Boston Globe story on Front Porch Forum, the most interesting social network you've never heard of. bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/bus…

Excited to join @DataVizSociety / @abmakulec for a chat about my book -- "Community Data" -- next week (Wed 11th). Attend to hear about the book, push your thinking about what counts as data viz, & have some fun with a "desk-top data sculpture" challenge! eventbrite.com/e/community-da…

Open source investigations in journalism has been an exciting space to follow and watch mature. Check out this new "Open Source Journalism" conference hosted at @uscannenberg Feb 7/8. sites.usc.edu/open-source/

Looking for a data viz community? I super enjoyed the Information is Beautiful Awards event last year (& gave a talk!). Submissions open soon for next year, and the event will be in Spring. Submit and join this great event. informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024 @infobeautyaward @datavizsociety