Learn: Journalism + Tech

Bots. The word is everywhere and each week seems to bring a new project or piece of technology — from Facebook’s new bot-building platform to Microsoft’s Bot Framework to Taco Bell’s bot for Slack. Journalism is not immune. Platforms…

NOTE: Originally published on knightlab.northwestern.edu by Rich Gordon.

NICAR16 will be the third NICAR that I have attended as a student — thanks Knight Lab! — and over the last couple years I’ve learned a few tips and tricks for how to get the most out of your time at the conference. The NICAR community is really welcoming —…

NOTE: Originally published on knightlab.northwestern.edu by Rich Gordon.

As a hobby developer and computer science student, I find myself using Heroku to release many of my projects. Heroku is a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) business that provides server power for…

Scraping web pages is a well documented process. There are plenty of guides on how to pull information using plugins like Python’s Beautiful Soup or browser extensions like Kimono. Many web applications even provide public APIs for gathering information, such…