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Derek Willis
dwillis@gmail.com
@dwillis
Derek Willis
Journalist & developer.
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Projects
Fixing Journalism
Teaching
Colophon
The More Important Problem
Mar 2019
The NICAR-L Improvement Project
Feb 2019
Academy Fight Song, Part 2
Dec 2017
Government and Civic Tech
Sep 2016
My Favorite Things
Jul 2015
Civic Data and Journalism
Jun 2015
We're All Publishers Now
Nov 2014
Lightning Strikes
Jul 2014
How It Starts
May 2014
Data Journalism, Student Media Edition
Oct 2013
The Natives Aren't Restless Enough
Oct 2013
Teaching Hospitals, Journalism Education and a Hatchet Job
Aug 2013
Why Develop in the Newsroom?
Jul 2013
What Good is Dat?
Jul 2013
Lessons from 'Data-Crunched Democracy'
Jun 2013
What They Say About Us
May 2013
Academy Fight Song
Apr 2013
The Itemizer
Apr 2013
Mobile Apps - Where the data lives
Mar 2013
The Data-Driven Congressional Reporter
Dec 2012
Congressional Data on GitHub - A Way Forward
Oct 2012
Share Your Knowledge
Aug 2012
Finding New Money
May 2012
Lost in the Weeds
May 2012
Our Mark Knoller Problem
May 2012
On Legislative Data Transparency
Feb 2012
What We Don't Know About Elections
Oct 2011
In Defense of Building Tools
Aug 2011
Why Teach SQL?
Jul 2011
Interviewing Data
May 2011
What APIs Mean for Data Journalists
Mar 2011
Why Students Should Come to the CAR Conference
Dec 2010
Hard Problems
Sep 2010
How Far We've Come
Sep 2010
A GitHub for Data?
Jul 2010
How APIs Help the Newsroom
Jul 2010
Using the NYT Congress API with ... Excel?
May 2010
A Gentle Introduction to Google App Engine
Feb 2010
Lightning Talks at NICAR
Feb 2010
The Gift of Data
Dec 2009
The Future of IRE Training
Nov 2009
A Question of Emphasis
Nov 2009
Buying Into Computational Journalism
Nov 2009
The FEC's Disclosure Data Catalog
Oct 2009
One Way to Encourage Innovation
Jul 2009
The Fundamental Training Need
Jun 2009
The Case Against Teaching Access
Jun 2009
No, Really, Show Us The Data
Mar 2009
Represent and GeoDjango
Dec 2008
White House Beat Feature Request
Sep 2008
The Difference
Sep 2008
The Birth of Quadruplets, or Understanding the Process
Jul 2008
Caspio's Lessons
Jun 2008
The Future of News Libraries
Jun 2008
On Bomb-Throwing
May 2008
Of the Web vs. On the Web
Nov 2007
Innovation Belongs in the Newsroom
Nov 2007
The Times
Oct 2007
Teaching Data on the Web
Sep 2007
On Trials, Software and Otherwise
Sep 2007
Outsourcing Database Development, or the Caspio Issue
Sep 2007
Django, iCal and vObject
Jul 2007
The Original (and Future?) Facebook
Jul 2007
The New Competition
Jun 2007
Finding Enterprise Reporting
Jun 2007
Shoot the Google
May 2007
Why The Web
Feb 2007
Congressional Vote Database
Dec 2005
Xpdf on the Mac
May 2005
The Long Bet
Mar 2002