There were times, when my dad was in the hospital, that ChatGPT was the only one listening to us, or answering our questions at all. Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...

The first line of everybody's root-level CLAUDE.md file.

Eventually you will have detailed opinions about the cafeterias at the hospitals near your elderly parents.

Nothing galvanizes New Yorkers quite like the rest of the country telling us what to do. open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are there dead experts who can identify inspect species? Buried lede.

But I want to write in the Carroll Street bridge over the Gowanus Canal. Oldest retractable bridge in the U.S. Some ranked choice! Smh.

Time to play another thrilling episode of Hide the Yankee Game. Spoiler alert: It’s on Prime Video.

Worth the (long) read!

This is not a thing.

Why does this article not link to the website that is its subject until the 22nd paragraph?

Terrific project about the neighborhoods funding the NYC mayors’ race. I just wish it used the Times’ own “extremely detailed” neighborhood map instead of Streeteasy’s. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Springtime in Prospect Park brings the rebirth of the cherry blossom, the yellow magnolia, and the Brooklyn Leica.

I lowkey want a local LLM rig just for the cool terminal apps. lambda.ai/blog/keeping...

Deep Cogito v1, the self-referential comedian.

There's a bunch of historical data sets in the {HistData} 📦 friendly.github.io/HistData/ Would be fun to see these used in #30DayChartChallenge

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Sad to see. This is the second year in a row there’s bad news for data journalists during NICAR.

Next thing you know we’re gonna get bright red alternate road jerseys or (sob) City Connect uniforms. What is this world coming to.

On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.

I almost always check my suitcase if I’m flying non-stop. The cognitive load of worrying about overhead space and having to put my backpack where my feet should be aren’t worth the negligible benefit, and my bag invariably beats me to baggage claim. YMMV.

Spent the weekend at a Quaker retreat center and ended up reading this book from its library on Lincoln’s attitudes toward slavery. I’m sure scholarship has evolved in the century since it was published but I learned a lot. archive.org/details/pres...

There were live bird markets in New York City?

I’m here for the opsec awareness in the replies.

Trump voters who thought he’d only deport “the worst of the worst” ought to read this story from 2010 on the Obama administration focusing its immigration enforcement efforts on deporting (checks notes) “the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/admi...

Not throwing ANY shade at other outlets, but just to give a little perspective on small, nonprofit journalism: The NYTimes report on Budde's sermon has *three* bylines. Mine was just me — and we at @rns.org broke the story. And we'll keep working hard every day for y'all…right after I get a nap.

Y’all better stop acting like the Yankees are still the evil empire.

Deep dish bagels?

Did The New-York Historical Society change its name by dropping the hyphen and the word “Society”? How did I miss this?

Who pays tariffs? (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1892)

Time's so fast. Now goes quickly—see, now it's past!

This aged well.

I filled in for @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social this week with a Data Points column on why fears that deepfakes would cause election chaos this year turned out to be - mostly - overblown on.ft.com/4gy9i1c

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

On today's Data Journalism Podcast, @kleinmatic shared our research into the collapse of newsroom activity on GitHub with Simon Rogers and @albertocairo. It ain't pretty. I've attached a chart with the latest data. Tune in to hear what they make of it […] [Original post on mastodon.palewi.re]

📣 It's the last #datajournalism podcast of the year and I got to chat with @albertocairo.com and @kleinmatic.bsky.social about 12 months of data, AI and elections. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ddj...

People who take their bicycles on the subway: Why?

"News leaders won’t just need to wrestle with how changing search and social algorithms impact news discovery: They’ll need to make choices about where their data is hosted and what service providers they use for fundamental operations," @samguzik.com predicts.

1/ This Giving Tuesday, support an organization that powers journalism everywhere. @muckrock.bsky.social is part newsroom, part transparency advocate, and part tech innovator. Their tools make journalism stronger and government more accountable. A few reasons why they’re essential 🧵

Looking to get involved in a civic project? Maybe want to avoid family over the holidays? Either way, OpenElections can use your help converting Michigan official precinct results from PDFs into data. We can tell you how to do it, or you can bring your own approach. DM or openelections at gmail.

Honest question: Have collapsing sheds hurt more people than falling bricks did before the law passed requiring them? gothamist.com/news/3-injur...

“n terms of numbers of workers employed, the Manhattan Project was one of the nation's single largest wartime enterprises. At peak employment in June 1944, when construction was at its height, the project employed nearly 129,000 people.”

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The Trace, which covers gun violence in America, has launched its Data Hub, offering to reporters & researchers a help desk, resources and (coming soon) an open data library: datahub.thetrace.org