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Matt Waite

Professor of Practice | Journalism | Technology

I am a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a data journalist. I build things, analyze data, and teach others how to do the same.

Projects

The Art of Data Journalism

Interactive tutorials teaching data journalism through R and the Tidyverse.

Sports Data Tutorials

Interactive tutorials for analyzing and visualizing sports data using R and the Tidyverse.

Drone Journalism

What you need to know to get a drone license in the US and what separates a journalist from just someone with a controller in their hand.

Blog

Blog posts

Parsing PDFs with Antigravity

code
analysis
AI
Nov 24, 2025

An R + LLM starter kit

code
analysis
AI
Mar 7, 2025

An academic integrity-friendly code pal for R Studio

AI
code
r
education
Nov 26, 2024

Nebraska’s season long slide on offense

code
football
huskers
Nov 8, 2024

A simple example of AI agents(?) doing journalism(?) work

code
analysis
AI
Oct 23, 2024

Another year, another attempt, another bracket disaster

code
analysis
Mar 28, 2022

Nebraska is not the best worst team in basketball again. They’re third best worst.

huskers
code
analysis
Mar 20, 2022

Is Nebraska the best worst team in college basketball?

huskers
code
analysis
Mar 28, 2021

How I (poorly) filled out my NCAA bracket with machine learning

code
analysis
Mar 22, 2021
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