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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p>I was misbraining, it was in Dr Dobb's Journal, 1983, Roger Gregory (but actually Chip Morningstar, yes that one) for Xanadu:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_08/page/n29/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_j</span><span class="invisible">ournal_vol_08/page/n29/mode/2up</span></a></p><p>And self-rebuttal:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_08/page/164/mode/2up" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_j</span><span class="invisible">ournal_vol_08/page/164/mode/2up</span></a></p><p>"It was then he knew, he fucked up."</p><p>It is, of course, imperative that every nerd download all the DDJ volumes 1-15 and read them. Back when program listings mattered! Small-C complete assembly listing!<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal?sort=date" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_j</span><span class="invisible">ournal?sort=date</span></a></p><p><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/xanadu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xanadu</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ddj</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>What ID can you use to get data for a specific topic in the US Census 1-year American Community Survey? I made an experimental Custom GPT where you ask a natural language question and get a response. Free ChatGPT account needed.<br><a href="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7c1012ea081918c52c6f25480af2b-find-american-community-survey-1-year-variable-ids" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chatgpt.com/g/g-67c7c1012ea081</span><span class="invisible">918c52c6f25480af2b-find-american-community-survey-1-year-variable-ids</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/USCensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USCensus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/Census" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Census</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a></p>
Marvin Oppong<p>Als Dozent und Trainer biete ich praxisorientierte Workshops zu:</p><p>🔍 (Investigative) Recherche<br />📱 Verifikation & Social-Media-Tools<br />📊 Datenjournalismus & Open Data<br />📑 Recherchetools, Handelsregister & mehr</p><p>Ich helfe, eure Skills auf das nächste Level zu heben! Für Redaktionen und Medienhäuser. Meine bisherigen Referenzen: www.oppong.eu/referenzen-dozent.<br />Gerne Nachricht für mehr Infos.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Journalismus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Medien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Recherche" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Recherche</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a></p>
Alexander Howard<p>Listening to Chelsea Curtis talk about how she used freedom of information laws to uncover stories & build a database about Indigenous people who are missing or were murdered across Arizona: <a href="https://azluminaria.org/mmip-arizona/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">azluminaria.org/mmip-arizona/</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SunshineFest" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunshineFest</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SunshineWeek" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunshineWeek</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OpenGov" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenGov</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ddj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ddj</a></p>
DW Innovation<p>Russia's war on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, visualized in a collection of annotated charts:</p><p>- Ukrainian territory controlled by Russia<br />- missiles and artillery fire<br />- civilian deaths and injuries<br />- damaged civilian structures<br />- internally displaced people and Ukrainian refugees abroad</p><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/human-toll-of-russias-war-in-ukraine-explained-in-graphics/a-71495389" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/human-toll-of-russia</span><span class="invisible">s-war-in-ukraine-explained-in-graphics/a-71495389</span></a></p><p>(incl. code and data repository, via DW Data)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DDJ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataViz</span></a></p>
Sandra Wiegard<p>»In der Literatur ist vom „Rural resentment“ die Rede, das sich unter anderem aus der Wahrnehmung speist, dass Steuergelder eher in die Städte als aufs Land fließen«
<a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23%23ddj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">##ddj</a> Instinktiv würde ich sagen, das stimmt nicht, aber wie ist es wirklich?<br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7magdnzk4hdpayhwzdq3ne2/post/3lkd3vgwzus2z" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h7magdnzk4hdpayhwzdq3ne2/post/3lkd3vgwzus2z</a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>Columbia journalism prof. Jonathan Soma taught 4 <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> sessions at <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/NICAR25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NICAR25</span></a> : scraping for social media, processing documents with AI (including hallucination issues), what roles AI can play in a newsroom, and analyzing videos with AI. <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a></p><p>Alas he is not active either on Mastodon or Bluesky.</p><p>Info and links added to my NICAR app <a href="https://www.machlis.com/nicar/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">machlis.com/nicar/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>“Analyze millions of records in seconds with Amazon Web Services and SQL” <br>“Running queries in Athena is great, but automating them in Python is even better. With Python, you can run a query on a regular schedule, execute a list of queries in series and pull any number of other tricks without having to sit around and click buttons in Amazon’s web console.”<br>Free tutorial and code from Reuters data journalists ⬇️⬇️⬇️<br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/SQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SQL</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/NICAR25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NICAR25</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/114123444206890273" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/1</span><span class="invisible">14123444206890273</span></a></p>
Marvin Oppong<p>Als Folgendes veröffentlicht wurde, hatte ich noch kein Mastodon, deshalb nochmal hier geteilt: Auf dieser <a href="https://www.oppong.eu/wiki-transparency-project/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oppong.eu/wiki-transparency-pr</span><span class="invisible">oject/</span></a> Seite findet Ihr das Ergebnis des Crowdfundings "Wiki Transparency Projekt". Ergebnis des Crowdfundings sind drei neuartige, kostenlose <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tools</span></a>. Diese können dabei helfen, Wikipedia-Manipulationen aufzudecken. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>Hey <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/NICAR25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NICAR25</span></a> presenters! If you have publicly available presentation materials and want them to be included in my searchable list, please enter the info here!<br><a href="https://forms.gle/X9LDwufTUqcy3wW86" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.gle/X9LDwufTUqcy3wW86</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(I've been keeping this list since 2020, it's at <br><a href="https://www.machlis.com/nicar/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">machlis.com/nicar/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> . May take a few seconds to load)</p><p>NICAR = data journalism conference<br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>Workshop video on Analyzing 2023 American Community Survey Census data in R led by Kyle Walker (creator of tidycensus) is now on YouTube:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/9a8_p_q4Z34?si=s0dbOg7IDycK9u0c" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/9a8_p_q4Z34?si=s0dbOg</span><span class="invisible">7IDycK9u0c</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/Census" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Census</span></a></p>
Raphipons<p>Confession data : je suis pollué par la pratique du métier au point de voir la couche en haut de cette photo comme l'addition des couches du dessous 🧮 <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ddj</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/abstractphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abstractphotography</span></a></p>
Krafting<p>I totally missed the new <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@mixxx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mixxx</span></a></span> 2.5.0 release in december, I'm so happy mappings can have their own settings now instead of fiddling inside code file, and I've added the new settings UI to my Pioneer DDJ SX2 Mapping ! As well as a new setting. Not perfect, but it works and I can always iterate on it!</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Krafting/Mixxx-Pioneer-DDJ-SX2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/Krafting/Mixxx-Pion</span><span class="invisible">eer-DDJ-SX2</span></a></p><p>Thank you the Mixxx team for your amazing work ! :)</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/djing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>djing</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/dj" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dj</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mixxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mixxx</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/pioneer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pioneer</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PioneerDDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PioneerDDJ</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DDJSX2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJSX2</span></a></p>
Katharina Brunner<p>Really like the approach of this data analysis: nothing fancy, but getting the job done. </p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-yo</span><span class="invisible">utube-podcast-men-for-trump/</span></a></p><p>By <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Leonyin" class="u-url mention">@<span>Leonyin</span></a></span> and others</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a></p>
Sharon Machlis<p>Via Kyle Walker: "The latest version of the {mapgl} <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> package is now released, supporting scrollytelling-style story maps!</p><p>"Build richly interactive map stories from your R data pipelines using Mapbox<br> or <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@maplibre" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>maplibre</span></a></span> as your backend.</p><p>"Learn how in the new vignette:"</p><p><a href="https://walker-data.com/mapgl/articles/story-maps.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">walker-data.com/mapgl/articles</span><span class="invisible">/story-maps.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RSpatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSpatial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/DDJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DDJ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/RShiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RShiny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.machlis.com/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a></p>
Marvin Oppong<p>Als Dozent biete ich praxisorientierte Workshops zu:</p><p>🔍 (Investigative) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Recherche" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Recherche</span></a><br />📊 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Datenjournalismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Datenjournalismus</span></a> & Open Data<br />📱 Verifikation & Social-Media-Tools<br />📑 Recherchetools, Handelsregister & mehr</p><p>Ich helfe, eure Skills auf das nächste Level zu heben!</p><p>DM für mehr Infos. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a></p>
DW Innovation<p>Hello & welcome back! </p><p>We're kicking off 2025 with a piece that looks towards the year 2050 – and was actually published in late 2024 (by our colleagues at DW Data). </p><p>The question in focus: How's the world doing in terms of slowing global warming – and getting to net zero?</p><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/net-zero-by-2050-9-charts-showing-the-worlds-progress/a-59684637" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/net-zero-by-2050-9-c</span><span class="invisible">harts-showing-the-worlds-progress/a-59684637</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/netzero" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>netzero</span></a></p>
DW Innovation<p>The best and/or most intriguing data visualizations of 2024 – according to the Datawrapper family:</p><p><a href="https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-d</span><span class="invisible">ispatch-december-17-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddj" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ddj</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dataviz</span></a></p>
Alexander Howard<p>Those were the best of times, today is the worst of times.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/24/when-america-was-great-according-data/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...</a>
I missed these evocative visualizations by <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/andrewvandam.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@andrewvandam.bsky.social</a> earlier this year.
I hope the <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ddj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ddj</a> hashtag collects great data journalism here over time, as it has over on Twitter.</p>
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