Blog posts – Matt Waite’s Collection of Miscellany

Parsing PDFs with Antigravity

In a word: Gobsmacked.

code

analysis

AI

An R + LLM starter kit

code

analysis

AI

An academic integrity-friendly code pal for R Studio

How to plug in an LLM to help – but not too much – in a world that wants to cheat

AI

code

r

education

Nebraska’s season long slide on offense

code

football

huskers

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

code

analysis

AI

Another year, another attempt, another bracket disaster

code

analysis

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

huskers

code

analysis

Is Nebraska the best worst team in college basketball?

huskers

code

analysis

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

code

analysis

Choosing a World Cup Team to root for in each match: An algorithmic approach.

I wrote a data journalism manual for my college in 1997. They never used it, but they kept it.

data journalism

retro

Using Lego to teach data visualization

Everything I Know About Data I Learned From 70s Album Rock…

data journalism

talks

A classroom experiment in Twitter Bots and creativity

UNL CoJMC students: Two data/programming/future courses for the fall

A 5-step NICAR recovery plan

A small step toward solving the our curriculum is too full problem

Unconference panel pitch I will someday make

The Minimum Viable Participant

Replacing Reporters With Robots I Might Be

Here Is John Keefe And I Talking About The Near

A new way for data journalists to thwart newsroom IT: the Raspberry Pi

Adventures in prototyping

Writing stories with code, part 2: conditional leads from trends

Writing stories with code

Drones Soldering Irons Micro Controllers

Numeracy

Help me plan a hacker space/drone lab

If you were teaching a course in data visualization…

Toward a solution to the more tech in J-school problem

journalism

education

manifesto

rant

Using Python to access tweets from the command line

A completely arbitrary list of takeaways from two unconferences

A word of advice for Code Year participants

Data journalism class description: your thoughts?

Thinking out loud: The management wisdom of Battlestar Galactica

Help me refine an incomplete idea

Journalism students vs. tech-focused students

News nerd rage: the trouble with conferences

Me vs. 130 Journalism 101 students: The epic Q&A

journalism

future

manifesto

politifact

Some very smart posts about killing your CMS

journalism

data

Take A Few Minutes And Watch This And 1 Tell Me

research

journalism

future

What would you want out of a class taught by a journalist-programmer?

journalism

education

The key lesson I learned building PolitiFact: Demos, not memos

journalism

django

politifact

newsapps

Telling the Google Bot no

newsapps

Build something or STFU

journalism

newsapps

Twitter, marketing and the devil

newsapps

twitter

marketing

Data = Content: Content = Data

journalism

data

content

platforms

newsapps

How not to be a Wordpress hero

journalism

Thoughts on Everyblock and context

data

journalism

newsapps

Molten content, data ghettos and why your CMS problems are an excuse, not a reason

journalism

data

newsapps

Data ghettos

data

journalism

newsapps

rant

Why the journalist in programmer/journalist matters

journalism

newsapps

Announcing PolitiFact

politifact

journalism

data

newsapps