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Matt Waite (@mattwaite)

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JOUR307-Data-Journalism

A collection of stuff for my Data Journalism class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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JOUR491-Data-Visualization

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

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JOUR491-Storybots

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

MathForBeginningReporters

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.

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.

MapsAndChartsInR

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

sportsdatabook

MOTHBALLED: See README note.

mongotweet

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

SportsDataTutorials

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

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.

NICAR19SportsDataViz

Course materials for a workshop in visualizing sports data in R

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.

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.

SPMC350-Sports-Data-Analysis-And-Visualization

niemanlab-predictions

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

BasicProgrammingWithBoardGames

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

RockPaperScissorsWithPython

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

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JOMC891-Data-Storytelling

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

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mattwaite.github.io

programming-skits

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

NCAAWomensVolleyballData

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

BaggageHandler

An Arduino sketch for our little experiment using an accelerometer to sense how rough my luggage was being treated on a recent flight.

SportsDataTextbook

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

TweetsWithR

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.

unlpd

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

NCAAWomensSoccerData

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

studentgov

A project to track the student government at universities.

MeteorMonitor

A Meteor app fronting an Internet of Things device

AdvancedSportsDataTutorials

Drone-Journalism-Update

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

out-of-state-cash

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

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livetweet

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

JOUR491-Algorithms-For-Journalism

Materials for a course in using algorithms for news.

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NoiseMeter

A seriously simple Arduino sketch for recording sound values from a microphone/amplifier and writing them to an SD card every tenth of a second.

JOUR304-Multimedia-Journalism

A repository for class materials for my section of JOUR304 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Edmoney

This is the code that powered Edmoney.org. It is provided here as part of a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Education Writers Association.