Sachita Nishal
PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
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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.
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).
Jun 29, 2020
My Thesis Experience at Northwestern University
— Advice for Applying for Research Internships Abroad
Sep 16, 2019
Lessons From a Massive(ly-Annoying) Scraping Project in Python
— A Long Read about my Undergraduate Thesis Project