Check out this new data analysis from CBS News, which I'm told was inspired by our "First LLM Classifier" class at the #NICAR25 conference.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-rfk-jr-cuts-science-funding/

💡 The AI class Derek Willis and I debuted at the #NICAR25 data journalism conference has expanded into a training course at Hugging Face.

Read all about it in Florent Daudens' new post.

https://huggingface.co/posts/fdaudens/253707357021654

This year, I debuted three new hands-on classes at #NICAR25, the annual data journalism conference put on by IRE.

I'm happy to release them all as online textbooks where anyone can work through the material for free. 🧵

40 free tip sheets, presentations, and/or repos from awesome data journalists, professors & researchers, from last week's #NICAR25 conference.
Learn about mapping/GIS, GitHub Actions, R, Python, LLMs, command-line tools, JavaScript, and lots more.

Links at https://www.machlis.com/nicar/

#RStats #Python #GitHub #GenAI #GIS #RSpatial #DataViz #JavaScript

Two major themes of my #NICAR25: visibility and encouragement.

I heard from other queer attendees about their aspirations and fears, reminded colleagues of their excellence, and simply had fun in the open with friends new and old.

It’s critical that we see and uplift one another, now and always.

In case you missed it, the Data Liberation Project has just published partial records of our Medicare “Level 2” Appeals request. #NICAR25

View this data here:https://www.data-liberation-project.org/requests/cms-medicare-appeals-level-2/

Looking for something from #NICAR25 to skim? I'm happy to offer the script for "First LLM Classifier."

https://palewi.re/docs/first-llm-classifier/

The hands-on class, which debuted Saturday, will show you how to create an AI model that can read and categorize text.