Author: Floris Wu
What I learned applying data science to U.S. redistricting
Deciding whether to reelect President Donald Trump isn’t the only choice Americans will have to make when they head to the voting booths this November. More than 5,000 state lawmakers […]
How to build a heatmap in Python
Heatmaps are effective visualization tools for representing different values of data over a specific geographical area. You could, for example, use them for temperatures, rainfall or electricity use. In this […]
The future of machine learning in journalism
Kevin Wall, a visual journalist at The Boston Globe, is just beginning to use machine learning in his reporting. But the large amounts of data he needs to leverage this […]
Carlos Scheidegger on why data science needs to be done humanely
The bias inherent in machine learning algorithms and other computer systems is an issue that concerns many industries, including journalism. For example, reporters such as Julia Angwin – formerly with ProPublica […]
Takeaways on being a watchdog reporter from the 2018 Boston Watchdog Workshop
“We found new and fresh ways to look at an issue that many people had covered before, by not only gathering a lot of data that was already out there, […]
How Florida Today created an augmented reality rocket launch app
Would you watch an animated hologram of a rocket launch in real-time? Florida Today, in collaboration with USA Today, recently released an augmented reality app, 321 Launch, which syncs with […]