X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform's “Community Notes.”

First piece to analyze new AI Community Note writers, analyzed in R and graphics using ggplot/Adobe Illustrator

The Legislative Network Behind State Trans Laws

A new analysis reveals how policies use language sourced from lobbying groups and disseminated throughout state legislator networks.

Scrollytelling story built in Svelte using natural language processing from thousands of scraped bills in Python.

Chronic Absenteeism Remains High in Harlem Elementary Schools

Over half of Harlem elementary schoolers are chronically absent, which can imperil students' futures.

Story picked up by Associated Press Newswire from Columbia News Service.

Graphics in Datawrapper and analyzed in R

"We're showing all our dirty laundry": A scientific crisis in psychology

Attempts to replicate studies often failed to produce results and left the field reeling.

A scrollytelling story built with ggplot/RAWGraphs and Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, using data scraped with Playwright and BeautifulSoup

The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

Graphics created with Datawrapper/Illustrator/ggplot, scraped with Python and analyzed using R.

Courier Newsroom Spent Big on a Meta Ad Blitz in October

Columbia Journalism Review story on partisan newsrooms in 2024 election

Extracted data from Meta Ad Library API using Python, analysis in R and all graphics from ggplot

Citi Bike or City Hike? Mapping NYC's Most Unreliable Stations

Even the most popular stations fail to serve riders at peak times.

Data scraped using GitHub actions and Python from Citi Bike real-time API over three months and analyzed in R/ggplot

I'll take AWKWARD SILENCE for $800

Why are Jeopardy contestants getting stumped more often?

A scrollytelling story built with ggplot and Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, using data scraped with BeautifulSoup

Know what Trump is going to do next? Willing to bet on it?

An analysis of how accurate predicting political events can be in the age of Donald Trump

Graphics made in Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, scraped using the Polymarket API in Python and analyzed/visualized in R

New York City evictions surged in 2024 despite new tenant protections

Data story examining the 2024 increase in NYC evictions in spite of new tenant protection laws

Graphics built in Datawrapper and analyzed in Python/pandas

The Year of the Woman, In One Chart

How women changed Congress in 1992

Graphic created in RAWGraphs and Adobe Illustrator with scrollytelling elements

Mr. Trash Wheel

Society makes a lot of trash. Anthropomorphizing might help.

Scrollytelling story built in Svelte

Cuomo Deepfaked Himself. You Can Too.

Public figures used to be off-limits in AI-generated video. A new Tow Center analysis shows how platforms are normalizing the practice.

Overdose Prevention Centers Generate Hostility in East Harlem, Muted Response in Washington Heights

In the three years since OnPoint NYC opened safe injection sites, why did its clinic in East Harlem become the center of controversy?

News Homepage Simplifier Google Extension

Third place winner of RJI Study Innovation Competition, partnering with Iowa Capital Dispatch.

Google Extension made primarily with HTML, CSS and Javascript. Stores user preferences and injects HTML using JS.

Popular Guitar Songs Scraper

Using Playwright and requests to scrape the most popular songs on www.ultimate-guitar.com, including artist country data for interactive mapping.

New York Times: Unwinding Wordle: Accelerating Your Solve

Working with our Games desk, I contributed research and data analysis to a guide to Wordle strategy

How the New York Times Games Data Team Revamped Its Reporting

A preview into the work I did at the New York Times Games team, including building a new data pipeline and dashboard suite.