Little Columns
Making data easier for everyone (but mostly just journalists)
Making data easier for everyone (but mostly just journalists)
Learn to design, test, and improve newsroom AI workflows — whether you build the tools yourself or guide the teams who do.
Pioneer Cohort starts November 13, 2024 • 6 weeks, live + recorded • Hands-on projects
Because knowledge doesn't grow on trees.
We'll let you know when we have fun new releases. Courses, tools, showtunes, furniture, etc.
An interactive introduction to Python.
I don't like a single introductory online Python class. They're boring, they're useless, and they lack an ounce of soul. So I'm making one. It's boring and useless, sure, but it's mine.
Machine learning and statistics in pursuit of reporting!
Features tutorials, reference, and walkthroughs of award-winning stories.
Point-and-click tools so you don't need to get your hands dirty with the command line.
Little Geocoder
Easily convert US street addresses to latitude/longitude.
Take advantage of the Census Bureau's bulk geocoding service with a simple app. Includes simple cleaning and data manipulation tools so you can spend less time in Excel and more time building your maps.
Pathwinder
Easily view and update your $PATH variable on OS X.
Organize your command line without opening ~/.bash_profile ever again! (or even knowing what that heck that means)
Python Wrangler
Installing Python can be a pain. Python Wrangler can help.
Discover and organize all of the Python versions installed on your system, and get tips on how to clean house and set everything up in a nice standard way.
Time to solve the deepest darkest mystery
Oh, hi. It's actually just me, Soma. My major qualifications are that I think programming is boring.
I also run the Lede Program at Columbia's Journalism School. We do data analysis, data viz, that kind of stuff, mostly over the course of 14 weeks in the summer. Learn more here.
But really, I'd like for more than just my students to have an easy time doing this stuff, so here we are.