October 17th, 2011 | by Derek Willis | published in Data, Journalism, Presentations
If you happened to be at the recent Online News Association conference in Boston and happened to attend the session on covering the 2012 elections, then a good bit of this will be repetitive. Since there wasn’t a ton of time to expand on what I said, and I don’t want to leave the impression [...]
March 28th, 2011 | by Derek Willis | published in API, Data, Presentations
If you’re in D.C. on April 12 and are interested in government records, you may want to consider attending the Media Access to Government Information Conference (MAGIC) being held at National Archives building on Pennsylvania Ave. I’ll be one of the panelists there, but don’t let that dissuade you; there are far brighter people who [...]
February 28th, 2008 | by Derek Willis | published in Presentations
Here’s the PDF of the presentation used for the panel that Chase Davis of the Houston Chronicle and I did on programming for journalists. Chase, Matt Waite and I also did a panel on open source software for CAR. Here’s the handout.
June 11th, 2007 | by Derek Willis | published in Journalism, Presentations
This year’s Special Libraries Association conference was in Denver, and I was lucky enough to be asked to help present, along with Jeremy Milarsky, a day-long session for the News Division on June 3rd. The basic focus was on developing a “tech toolbox” for news researchers – expanding their skills further into the technology realm. [...]
April 16th, 2007 | by Derek Willis | published in Presentations
Today I spoke at the Computers in Libraries conference in Crystal City, about creating browsable data with Django. My presentation is attached in PowerPoint and PDF formats.