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Teaching note: orthographic projections are underrated, as I argued in class 🌍 Slides: raw.githack.com/data-journal... Tutorial: raw.githack.com/data-journal...

The piece was inspired by a wonderful visual story by Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net and Zacharias Zacharakis @zacys.bsky.social in Die Zeit on how the Middle East war reshaped Europe–Asia air traffic (using different data though). www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Here's another piece you should check out: In "The Caucasus Corridor," Luca Vellage maps how Europe's flights to Asia got squeezed into a narrow new path after Russia closed its airspace. lucavellage.github.io/caucasus-cor...

Congrats to everyone involved - this is fantastic news!!

Stop! 🛑 Scroll no further - this is the coolest thing you'll see today. Presenting The Data Dispatch: data journalism made by my students at the Hertie School 👇 data-journalism-26.github.io

This spring, students in the #DataJournalism course traded the seminar room for the newsroom. The Data Dispatch brings reporting from Prof @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Munzert's Data Journalism course, where students take a story from raw data to publication 👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/deta...

Over the next days I'll highlight a few pieces I found especially inspiring. In the meantime, dive in: data-journalism-26.github.io

I put the course materials online here. Take a look and feel free to reuse. github.com/data-journal...

This class was such a joy to teach. I learned a ton from the students. Already looking forward to running it again next year.

For instance, in "The Quiet record", Elena Dreyer follows a European radar satellite passing over Ukraine every 12 days. Over 4 years of war, its signals built a record of Russia's strikes on Ukraine's power grid. A stunning piece of satellite journalism. elenaivadreyer.github.io/final-project/

This spring I taught Data Journalism at the Hertie School. The Data Dispatch gathers the students' work. Some of you might think: "student work, can't be that great." Well, just check out the pieces.

Stop! 🛑 Scroll no further - this is the coolest thing you'll see today. Presenting The Data Dispatch: data journalism made by my students at the Hertie School 👇 data-journalism-26.github.io

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📢 Reminder: Submit to our #MuC2026 workshop, “Human-Centered Content Moderation: Expertise, Context, and Evaluation” (Aug 30, Duisburg, Germany). We welcome position papers and reflection essays. 📅 Deadline: June 24, 2026 👉 workshop26.content-moderation.org

Last monday we published our paper on AI Labels and a potential spillover effect on unlabeled posts on platforms such as Instagram in the ICWSM proceedings. If you are interested in our work you can now find it here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Huge thanks to my co-authors @ddimmery.com and Pu Yan!

We are excited to feature the following keynote speakers at the Visions in Methodology Conference in Berlin: @adelineylo.bsky.social Adeline Lo, @uwmadison.bsky.social @tara-slough.bsky.social Tara Slough, Associate Professor, New York University 👉 vim2026.com #VIM2026

New paper w/ @lstoetze.bsky.social "Estimating Treatment Effects on Proportions with Synthetic Controls" out in @polanalysis.bsky.social 👀 When your outcomes are compositional (such as vote shares), applying synthetic controls separately to each part can break the math. We show how to fix it: 🧵

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Proud to share: our postdoctoral researcher Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social's new book, Making a Career in Dictatorship, has been featured in The New York Times. 📰 Read more about their feature here: lnkd.in/d2SNAfFC @hertieschool.bsky.social

🗓️ May 19, 3–4pm BST: I'm presenting at the DEMED webinar series on social media as a research tool, organized by @anjaneundorf.bsky.social & @aykutozturk.bsky.social I'll speak about geographic targeting using social media ads and why it matters. Sign up here: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...