Blog Posts

Apr 15, 2025
Learning to scope (and also breathe) — Some idle thoughts in the aftermath of my prospectus defense
Apr 2, 2025
One way news practitioners can think about uncertainty in LLM outputs — Recent write-up on LLMs and uncertainty for the GAIN blog
Nov 1, 2024
A prototype newsgathering tool for science journalists — A recent write-up about work presented at C+J 2024.
May 3, 2024
Talk + Responses: Blueprints for Evaluating AI in Journalism — Notes on my recent talk and related conversations at Aspen Digital's AI & News event.
Apr 2, 2024
Talk + Responses: Gender Biases in LLM Narratives — Notes on my recent talk and related conversations at Big Local News' annual Story Discovery at Scale conference.
Mar 19, 2024
19 Mar 2024: Where the Month Went — Sortings Things Out, The Algorithm, and Bullshit Jobs
Mar 14, 2024
Sorting Things Out, by Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Star (2000) — Lessons on building and changing sociotechnical systems.
Feb 2, 2024
2 Feb 2024: Where the Week Went — The business of the news, new AI regulation, and open-source AI
Jan 26, 2024
26 Jan 2024: Where the Week Went — Turing completion, goodbye to Pitchfork, and a new AI assistant
May 23, 2023
Reading and Writing Files in Python: Modifiers — How modifiers change what you write
May 19, 2023
BeautifulSoup4Dummies — Scraping, analysing, writing out HTML
Oct 27, 2022
Two Years into the PhD: Thoughts and Half-thoughts — Reflecting on two years of trying (and sometimes succeeding) to do impactful research
Apr 25, 2022
A Short Primer on Mutual Information — A conceptual and practical reference about mutual information for forgetful people (me).
Aug 17, 2021
Debugging Inside Scikit-Learn Pipelines — Writing a custom transformer in scikit-learn for debugging pipelines.
Jun 29, 2020
My Thesis Experience at Northwestern University — Advice for Applying for Research Internships Abroad
Jun 12, 2020
Hugo Hacks — Useful Tips for Hosting a Hugo Blog on Github Pages
Sep 16, 2019
Lessons From a Massive(ly-Annoying) Scraping Project in Python — A Long Read about my Undergraduate Thesis Project