Mastodawn

Here's the handout for a three hour workshop I presented at the NICAR data journalism conference on using coding agents (Codex CLI, Claude Code etc) for data exploration, visualization and analysis https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/16/coding-agents-for-data-analysis/

Coding agents for data analysis

Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude …

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Matthew Mamet

@simon The underappreciated audience for this is people who are not developers. I run a fractional advisory practice and use coding agents daily to analyze meeting transcripts, scrape data, and build reports. Six months ago I would have needed an analyst for every one of those tasks.