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  • Derek Willis
  • Journalist & developer.
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  • Fixing Journalism
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  • 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