Derek Willis

Hi, I’m Derek. I love using data to find and tell stories. And asking questions.

The Annotated Archive, Revisited

I gave a short talk at Computation + Journalism 2026 at Northwestern on Oct. 3 called “The Annotated Archive, Revisited.” It was 12 minutes, so this is the longer version.

Hoops Reloaded

I first need to apologize to and thank a guy named Chuck Morris.

Introducing Congress Press

I began collecting congressional press releases more than a dozen years ago for the reasons I usually start collecting anything: I was interested in them and there wasn’t a…