Two months of work with the amazing journalists at Grist culminated in the publishing of Misplaced Trust, our investigation into the extractive practices happening on stolen Indigenous lands that benefit land-grant universities across the West. I was honored to contribute the maps, frontend development, and cloud infrastructure for this piece, and to help out with eleventh-hour bug fixes on the data processing pipeline. The code for every interactive is open-source, as is the data analysis.

I gave my talk Supporting Data Journalism through Compilers for Visual Inputs at Strange Loop 2023, the final Strange Loop. I also had a blast meeting the Ink & Switch and tldraw folks, having wonderfully too-long dinners and too-late nights, and learning about everything from concatenative stack-based programming languages to how GitHub code search works to supporting dynamic program analysis in VM design.

My talk, Supporting Data Journalism through Compilers for Visual Inputs was accepted to Strange Loop 2023!