TIL the difference between a 7.1 on the Japanese Seismic Intensity Scale and 6.8 on the moment magnitude scale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_M...

very very excited to be launching Wrong Number with my buds @christinezhang.bsky.social and @jdharden.bsky.social! It’s a newsletter dedicated to all of our weird data obsessions: our first posts cover Law & Order, trees, and theme park accidents wrongnumber.beehiiv.com/p/about-wron...

About ‘Wrong Number’

What this newsletter is, who we are, and why we named it that.

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Just landed at Heathrow. Have I missed anything of note in the past hour and 20 minutes?

NEW: Tropical nights come to Europe One of the most striking features of the Europe's record-breaking summer is the intense night-time heat. Globally, the hottest nights are warming at a faster rate than the hottest days — with increasingly severe consequences. as.ft.com/r/eef6f0c5-6...

Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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NEW: a look at how surging power demands from data centers are helping to drive a shortage of electrical transformers ig.ft.com/transformers/

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The @data.ft.com team is hiring a graphics journalist. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Great to see our new live markets data graphic widget for the @financialtimes.com homepage get its first outing for the SpaceX IPO. Amazing work here from @peter.andringa.me and Dan Clark:

The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes.com coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent attention-gathering org not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

This story is wild! An imposter has been impersonating ProPublica reporter @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and he tries to figure out who it is.

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet. My interview with @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

He spent years investigating Opus Dei, a Catholic group accused of a vast conspiracy of abuse. Then Pope Leo asked to meet

Gareth Gore’s 2024 book Opus alleges decades of manipulation, which the group has denied. He believes the pope wanted to send a clear message

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Which leading economies will pay the biggest price for the Iran war? Not the US, it turns out Great to end my first week on the @financialtimes.com economics desk working on this story with Sam and Myles as.ft.com/r/7babde76-f...

Interest in posts about the NICAR data journalism conference March 5-8? This Bluesky feed collects posts with either the #NICAR26 or #NICAR2026 hashtag - plus searching for "NICAR" without a hashtag bsky.app/profile/smac... (Created with @blueskyfeedcreator.com ) #DDJ

This week on Behind the Money - the @financialtimes.com's @peter.andringa.me explains the months of reporting he's put into understanding: - who the private-sector businesses are that contract with US immigration agencies - and how much ($$) they are benefitting 🎧: podfollow.com/behind-the-m...

My colleague @okr.bsky.social vibe coded his own minimalist word processor and used it to write about vibe coding his own word processor. www.ft.com/content/071b...

How I vibe coded an app that passes the AI productivity test

Crafting a bespoke tool has forced me to think more carefully about the way I work

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If you're a data journalist using Python and you are going to be at NICAR, we are running an introduction to Polars workshop. schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#... bsky.app/profile/emil...

NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis

Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

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Emily Hunt@emily.space · 7mo ago

If you are user of the Python package Pandas, I cannot recommend switching to Polars highly enough. #astrocode I'm doing some groupbys for some plots, and a complicated set of string & numerical operations on *25 million rows* takes just 3 seconds on my laptop. The Pandas equivalent: 2+ minutes. 🤯

A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:

Nathaniel Rakich@baseballot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

.@votebeat.org is hiring a Senior National Reporter to cover issues of voting and democracy in 2026 and beyond. Reach out if you're interested in applying, we're a great place to work! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Looks like me and @eadehemingway.bsky.social are going to be running a workshop on data analysis with @pola.rs at NICAR in March. Maybe see some of you there!

These aren't even graticules. Looks like AI slop to me.

I am so looking forward to being around this community of data journalists. If you are a NICAR speaker and I missed you, please DM me so I can add you to this starter pack! go.bsky.app/H7iUZYd

This, by the way, is why newsletters are not a sustainable strategy by themselves for newsrooms that want to make first-party connections with their readers / audiences / communities. Inboxes are next to be intermediated.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 7mo ago

Google is forcing more generative AI on Gmail users. I couldn’t think of a better moment to finally drop Gmail (and other Google services)! I have a guide to do just that here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

In which @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and @sarahoconnorft.ft.com discuss how social scientists have been using AI to write code for data analysis, and what this means for other professionals who do similar work … like data journalists: www.ft.com/content/9183...

The AI Shift: Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research

The real value of an analyst now lies in the quality and quantity of their ideas

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Never let the north-up convention get in the way of a good election map!

Harry Ford just met with reporters over Zoom. Was legitimately stunned by trade, loved Mariners org, but is looking forward to opportunity with similarly young Nats. He's currently in Oxford, England (where his father lives), says he plays to again play for Great Britain in WBC.

try out the FT's fiscal drag calculator! www.ft.com/content/54cb...

My latest work project is the calculator in this, we're starting to do more of these smaller custom component projects and it's really exciting. Kudos to everyone for how quickly this came together.

Britons brace for highly uneven impact of Rachel Reeves’ ‘stealth tax’

[FREE TO READ] Use the FT’s interactive calculator to understand how a further freeze to income tax thresholds could affect you

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