Discover mattwaite/BaggageHandler Open Source project

Course materials for a data visualization course taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications

JOUR491-Data-Visualization

A repository of materials for a proposed class on automated story bots.

JOUR491-Storybots

Journalists need to be better at math and data. A good place to start? Beginning reporting class in journalism school, usually taught to 18 and 19 year olds who have avoided math their whole lives.

MathForBeginningReporters

JOUR491-News-Applications

A collection of stuff for my News Applications class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. More to be added later.

ucr-story-bot

An ultra-simple example of how to use Python to write stories based on a set of data.

A repository hosting materials and data for Maps and Charts in R: Real Newsroom Examples, a hands on class at NICAR 2014

MapsAndChartsInR

sportsdatabook

MOTHBALLED: See README note.

A MongoEngine+Django+Twitter API tool to grab tweets with a given keyword and store them for analysis.

mongotweet

Interactive R tutorials for SPMC350 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications

SportsDataTutorials

datajournalismbook

Bespoke text for JOUR307 Data Journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Coming together in a hurry. I would avoid these early versions if I were you.

Course materials for a workshop in visualizing sports data in R

NICAR19SportsDataViz

AccuracyChecklist

A checklist for journalists and journalism students to help cut down on simple mistakes in stories.

NICAR15SparkCoreHandsOn

Class notes and materials for a NICAR 2015 hands-on class using a Spark Core, IFTTT and Google Spreadsheets to record temperature every 10 minutes.

Arduino

CanvasStoryArchive

A Django app that's going to do something cool with archives for the Al Jazeera Canvas hackathon in Doha, Nov. 28-Dec 1.

A cheeky little exercise in using Markov chains to prove a point.

SPMC350-Sports-Data-Analysis-And-Visualization

niemanlab-predictions

A tutorial that teaches some basic programming principles by programming a board game simulator

BasicProgrammingWithBoardGames

A basic example of how to use Python to solve a well known problem: How to play Rock, Paper, Scissors.

RockPaperScissorsWithPython

The materials for an 8-week online course in data storytelling for a graduate program.

JOMC891-Data-Storytelling

mattwaite.github.io

A repository of skits that beginning programming students can perform to help them learn basic code concepts.

programming-skits

NCAAWomensVolleyballData

A repository of NCAA women's volleyball data scraped from stats.ncaa.org, including the scrapers written in R.

SportsDataTextbook

An updated version of my sports data textbook, now using Quarto

A simple example of using Python to gather tweets from the Twitter Search API, store them in a Sqlite database, and analyze them in R.

TweetsWithR

unlpd

A scraper and resulting data for University of Nebraska-Lincoln police reports posted publicly on the internet.

A repository of women's soccer data scraped from stats.ncaa.org, plus the scrapers that did the work.

NCAAWomensSoccerData

studentgov

A project to track the student government at universities.

A Meteor app fronting an Internet of Things device

MeteorMonitor

JavaScript

AdvancedSportsDataTutorials

Drone-Journalism-Update

An updated version of my Drone Journalism class materials using R and Bookdown.

A look at where donations are coming from in Nebraska political campaigns.

out-of-state-cash

An app to help people take notes and live tweet at the same time.

livetweet

JOUR491-Algorithms-For-Journalism

Materials for a course in using algorithms for news.