Senior Data Editor @YahooNews. Previously @PostGraphics, @FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP.) 2021-22 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown.
Providence, RI
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New: How the federal government is using AI
ALT Number of AI use cases reported by federal government
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If you're a reporter who has been laid off, know @PressClubDC is here for you.
We are offering a free, 3 month membership to those laid off this year.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Our polling average topline takeaway: Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election, but PA, WI and MI are within a typically-sized polling error.
w/ @dianesaysword, @kt_prry & Luis Melgar
washingtonpost.com/elections…
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Tom Scocca is one of the most careful, intelligent, incisive writers and editors I have ever worked with. The human toll of the collapse of the journalism industry haunts this (excellent) story.
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You’ve heard of the Boston Tea Party. Its 250th anniversary is Saturday.
But why is Rhode Island’s own rebellion — 18 months earlier — repeatedly scrubbed from our textbooks?
It’s a tale of who got to write our history — and blaming Harvard.
More here: washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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The Post has refurbished its mass killings tracker, a huge collaboration by the graphics and data departments
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The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive.
@washingtonpost’s Dying Early series starts running in print on A1 Sunday
washingtonpost.com/health/in…
Read the rest of the series here:
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Hi. I drew some mooncakes🥮washingtonpost.com/food/inte…
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Worked with @MauraJudkis, edited by @Emily_M_Eng and @zpincusroth, on this fun lil visual look at Barbie's bajillion and one jobs over the years. It's a Barbie world -- we're just living in it. washingtonpost.com/arts-ente…
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Artificial intelligence has become shockingly capable in the past year. The latest chatbots can have conversations, craft poems and the latest image-makers can create fake “photos” that look like the real thing.
We asked three AI systems to generate content using the same prompt. The results illustrate how quickly the technology has advanced. wapo.st/45phOut
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new: Curious why AI like ChatGPT has "suddenly" gotten so good? It boils down to a 2017 research paper, computer hardware that video gamers use, and datasets with better info in them, like news articles and book transcripts. w/@kevinschaul
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Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA
-copyright symbol appears >200M times
-pirated sites, 1 for e-books
-half the top 10 = news sites
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A single bullet fired by an AR-15 can blow a body a part. Many bullets can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. The gun is the weapon of choice for many mass killers. It works with brutal efficiency. wapo.st/ar15-damage
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2022: the year in graphics and visual stories.
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An amazing team @washingtonpost built an immersive, visual explainer of how AI image generators work
A step by step guide of how the striking images are made, and the ethical problems they’ve unleashed
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
@kevinschaul @Tan_Shelly @nitashatiku & Monique Woo
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Well that’s a shame! Check out how dog (or how human) your name is here: washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Today's election will determine the future of abortion access for millions of Americans. We researched the most important races for access across the country and will be tracking them tonight.
Here are the top 9 states I’ll be watching 🧵washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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It's almost Halloween, so instead of using spooky Twitter handles @bonnieberkowitz and @Tan_Shelly created this piece in which scientists value the merits of zombie tropes and reveal how the undeads partiality to keto diet may cause some of those symptoms.
washingtonpost.com/science/i…
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Hello 👋 this is @hannahdormido, graphics reporter at the @washingtonpost! Last week, we welcomed our remote team members to the DC office and set off on all sorts of adventures! Here’s what we were up to! 🧵 (1/7)
ALT A smiling Graphics team stands in front of the Washington Post logo on the roof of the DC office.