Classes I've Taught

• Building a data state of mind
• Basic Excel
• Building a newsroom data culture that lasts
• Cleaning dirty data with OpenRefine
• Collaborating with Nine Newsrooms to Cover the Death Penalty
• Covering Criminal Justice
• Data 1
• Death Penalty Data Viz lightning talk at GIJC15
• Digital security and encryption for the newsroom
• DocumentCloud
• How we built a massive system to track COVID-19 in prisons
• Interactive maps with Fusion Tables
• Introduction to coding in the newsroom with Python
• Introduction to Git and Github
• Investigative Techniques
• Mapping with Arcview
• Python mini boot camp
• Python for data analysis (class and exercise notebook)
• Redesigning the Newsroom workshop at SRCCON 2014.
• Resources for learning data journalism
• Risks and Rewards of Rolling Your Own Criminal Justice Data
• Scraping with Python in the newsroom
• Sending Mass Public Records Requests to Public Agencies
• Version control with Github

I’ve trained hundreds of journalists and students over the years, and I’ve spoken about reporting and data analysis at many conferences, including:

• John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s social media and local journalism roundtable, 2011
• NICAR 2012 in St. Louis.
• IRE 2012 in Boston.
• NICAR 2013 in Louisville, Ky.
• Hack Jersey hackathon, 2013
• SPJ Region 1 conference in New Brunswick, N.J., 2013
• NICAR 2014 in Baltimore.
• Innovating the Local News Ecosystem, 2014
• NJ Open Data Summit, 2014
• SRCCON 2014 in Philadelphia.
• Hack Jersey 2.0 hackathon, 2015
• NICAR 2015 in Atlanta.
• IRE 2015 in Philadelphia.
• GIJC 2015 in Lillehammer, Norway.
• NICAR 2016 in Denver.
• NICAR 2017 in Jacksonville, Fla.
• Collaborative Journalism Summit, 2017 in Montclair, N.J.
• NICAR 2018 in Chicago.
• Criminal Justice Reporting and Public Data symposium at the Brown Institute, 2018.
• Poynter’s Journalist’s Guide to Covering Jails.
• NICAR 2019 in Newport Beach, Calif.
• NICAR 2020 in New Orleans.
• Diving Into COVID-19 Data on the internet, 2021.
• NICAR 2021 lightning talks on the internet.
• NICAR 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee.
• ACOS Alliance Annual Safety Coordination Meeting 2023 in New York.
• NICAR 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.

In addition, I’ve taught and spoken to students and faculty at…

• Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where I teach classes on investigative techniques and an intro to data reporting.
• Fairleigh Dickinson University
• Kansas University
• Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Communication
• Montclair State University in New Jersey
• New York University
• University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
• and others