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Jonathan Stray

Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning

I’ve just completed an experiment to extract information from TV station political advertising disclosure forms using deep learning. In…

Jun 13, 2019

Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning

Jun 13, 2019

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Tow Center

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

In honor of MisinfoCon this weekend, it’s time for a brain dump on propaganda — that is, getting large numbers of people to believe…

Feb 27, 2017

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda

Feb 27, 2017

The Origin of Banking

Sep 27, 2016

Sep 27, 2016

Thinking Clearly about Buying Politicians

Sep 19, 2016

Thinking Clearly about Buying Politicians

Sep 19, 2016

Sometimes an algorithm really is (politically) unbiased

Aug 27, 2016

Aug 27, 2016

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NewCo Shift

Why Doing Good with Tech is Hard

Aug 15, 2016

Why Doing Good with Tech is Hard

Aug 15, 2016

Startups vs. Systems: Why Doing Good With Tech Is Hard

It’s not easy to make social change with technology. There’s excitement around bringing “innovation” to social problems, which usually…

Aug 15, 2016

Startups vs. Systems: Why Doing Good With Tech Is Hard

Aug 15, 2016

Five things I wish data scientists would write about instead of advertising. Vote for your fav

Optimizing the sales funnel is great and all, but I’d like to see the curiosity of data scientists turned to civilization.

Jan 18, 2016

Five things I wish data scientists would write about instead of advertising. Vote for your fav

Jan 18, 2016

How much election influence does “the media” really have? Digging into the data

I compared media mentions with standing in the polls to try to understand how much influence the media really has in politics.

Jan 7, 2016

How much election influence does “the media” really have? Digging into the data

Jan 7, 2016

It’s not you: political journalism really is broken

Those who grew up with the internet feel disconnected from “classic” politics, centered on government and elections. There’s a better way.

Nov 30, 2015

It’s not you: political journalism really is broken

Nov 30, 2015

Jonathan Stray

Jonathan Stray

Working on better personalized news and information at @CHAI_Berkeley. Previously: computational journalism at , editor AP, made some software

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