Rahul Bhargava
@rahulbot.bsky.social
Creative data & computational journalism. "Community Data" book eBook and pre-order available: http://communitydatabook.com
Excellent first day of workshops at @infoplusconf.bsky.social! Already connecting with old friends, having my curousity sparked by hands-on activities from Jose Duarte / EasyDataViz, and being inspired by novel data storytelling from @data4change.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Excellent first day of workshops at @infoplusconf.bsky.social! Already connecting with old friends, having my curousity sparked by hands-on activities from Jose Duarte / EasyDataViz, and being inspired by novel data storytelling from @data4change.bsky.social.
Our next experimental student data theatre production is in rehearsals! So exciting to join the team to see an early run last week. In Boston and curious about creative data experiences? Keep an eye out for "The Numbers" @ Northeastern Nov 13-23. eventregistration.northeastern.edu/event/9fc996...
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our next experimental student data theatre production is in rehearsals! So exciting to join the team to see an early run last week. In Boston and curious about creative data experiences? Keep an eye out for "The Numbers" @ Northeastern Nov 13-23. eventregistration.northeastern.edu/event/9fc996...
Excited to have @sydneypurdue.bsky.social presenting the latest in our ongoing work on data theatre at the Input Visualization Workshop at @ieeevis.bsky.social this week. Embodied methods worked to create data & build cohesion in summer workshops. Preprint at osf.io/aeu5g
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited to have @sydneypurdue.bsky.social presenting the latest in our ongoing work on data theatre at the Input Visualization Workshop at @ieeevis.bsky.social this week. Embodied methods worked to create data & build cohesion in summer workshops. Preprint at osf.io/aeu5g
Media Cloud data bite: the US right is talking a lot more about "abolish ice" as a narrative vs the left. These are older partisanship collections, but clearly the right isn't focused on imagining a post-ICE country. ICE was only _founded_ in 2003.
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Media Cloud data bite: the US right is talking a lot more about "abolish ice" as a narrative vs the left. These are older partisanship collections, but clearly the right isn't focused on imagining a post-ICE country. ICE was only _founded_ in 2003.
Local protest mapper tool update: had to remove ACLED due to new data restrictions, but CCC data updated 2 weeks ago. Make embeddable maps of protests in your area. Considering a bubble-map option since so many protests are happening in the same place 🤔 dataculture.northeastern.edu/local-protes...
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Local protest mapper tool update: had to remove ACLED due to new data restrictions, but CCC data updated 2 weeks ago. Make embeddable maps of protests in your area. Considering a bubble-map option since so many protests are happening in the same place 🤔 dataculture.northeastern.edu/local-protes...
Excited this week to be co-hosting a field building symposium on "New(s) Knowledge". Gathering researchers, civic technologists, funders, community-based organizations, journalists, and others working to understand and strengthen information ecosystems. Should be brain-filling!
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited this week to be co-hosting a field building symposium on "New(s) Knowledge". Gathering researchers, civic technologists, funders, community-based organizations, journalists, and others working to understand and strengthen information ecosystems. Should be brain-filling!
Tomorrow @ 3pm ET our partner @pregnancyjust.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about their data on pregnancy criminalization in the two years after the Dobbs decision, and discussing local impacts with Southern state partners. See their upcoming events: linktr.ee/pregnancyjust
September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Tomorrow @ 3pm ET our partner @pregnancyjust.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about their data on pregnancy criminalization in the two years after the Dobbs decision, and discussing local impacts with Southern state partners. See their upcoming events: linktr.ee/pregnancyjust
"You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth!"
(edited version of photo found on Reddit from BBC -- Aug 11, 2025)
(edited version of photo found on Reddit from BBC -- Aug 11, 2025)
September 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"You only target journalists when your enemy is the truth!"
(edited version of photo found on Reddit from BBC -- Aug 11, 2025)
(edited version of photo found on Reddit from BBC -- Aug 11, 2025)
New @mediacloud.bsky.social feature - keep track of our "Vitals" dashboard to see system status, the volume of ingestion, web search performance, and random recent stories ingested. vitals.mediacloud.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New @mediacloud.bsky.social feature - keep track of our "Vitals" dashboard to see system status, the volume of ingestion, web search performance, and random recent stories ingested. vitals.mediacloud.org
Amazing to celebrate 5 years of Data Against Feminicide with so many inspirational peers last week👏🏽 Read the amazing report from @icruxen.bsky.social and Alessandra for reflections on the participatory AI work I've been collaborating on. qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstr...
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Amazing to celebrate 5 years of Data Against Feminicide with so many inspirational peers last week👏🏽 Read the amazing report from @icruxen.bsky.social and Alessandra for reflections on the participatory AI work I've been collaborating on. qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstr...
What would it look like if US news wrote about the US like they do other countries? What if they considered defending democracy a key editorial goal? Imagine this fictional WashPo homepage 🤨 Sending solidarity to all my DC family and friends.
August 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What would it look like if US news wrote about the US like they do other countries? What if they considered defending democracy a key editorial goal? Imagine this fictional WashPo homepage 🤨 Sending solidarity to all my DC family and friends.
Keeping reliable up-to-date lists of US partisan media is a constant challenge for @mediacloud.bsky.social. One approach is to amplify the work of others: @therighting.bsky.social covers right wing media reporting. We filtered & added their list to Media Cloud: search.mediacloud.org/collections/...
August 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Keeping reliable up-to-date lists of US partisan media is a constant challenge for @mediacloud.bsky.social. One approach is to amplify the work of others: @therighting.bsky.social covers right wing media reporting. We filtered & added their list to Media Cloud: search.mediacloud.org/collections/...
Join us in celebrating the 5th anniversary of the amazing Data Against Feminicide project 🎉 Including official launch of the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with Femicide Count - Kenya. calendar 📅 Aug 14 🌍 11AM EDT | 12PM ARG/BRA | 3PM BST | 6PM EAT.
mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Join us in celebrating the 5th anniversary of the amazing Data Against Feminicide project 🎉 Including official launch of the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with Femicide Count - Kenya. calendar 📅 Aug 14 🌍 11AM EDT | 12PM ARG/BRA | 3PM BST | 6PM EAT.
mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Quick @mediacloud.bsky.social data re-ingestion update: 2019 data now available 🎉 We're about hallway through reprocessing historical data from 2018.
July 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Quick @mediacloud.bsky.social data re-ingestion update: 2019 data now available 🎉 We're about hallway through reprocessing historical data from 2018.
Excited to be speaking for this year's @umassamherst.bsky.social Data Science for the Common Good cohort tomorrow. Ready to engage on questions of who gets to define "good" and design approaches for *contested* "good"s. ds.cs.umass.edu/programs/ds4cg
July 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excited to be speaking for this year's @umassamherst.bsky.social Data Science for the Common Good cohort tomorrow. Ready to engage on questions of who gets to define "good" and design approaches for *contested* "good"s. ds.cs.umass.edu/programs/ds4cg
Do online news mentions in the far right predict or respond to Trump regime attacks on university presidents? Poking around with some @mediacloud.bsky.social data this week. This chart shows top 25 colleges mentioned since Jan, via entity extraction and heuristic name linking.
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Do online news mentions in the far right predict or respond to Trump regime attacks on university presidents? Poking around with some @mediacloud.bsky.social data this week. This chart shows top 25 colleges mentioned since Jan, via entity extraction and heuristic name linking.
My office door keeps swinging closed. Old building, crooked walls 🤷🏽♂️
So I made a doorstop from my mosaicist wife's leftover supplies 🎉
Problem solved 👍🏽
So I made a doorstop from my mosaicist wife's leftover supplies 🎉
Problem solved 👍🏽
July 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My office door keeps swinging closed. Old building, crooked walls 🤷🏽♂️
So I made a doorstop from my mosaicist wife's leftover supplies 🎉
Problem solved 👍🏽
So I made a doorstop from my mosaicist wife's leftover supplies 🎉
Problem solved 👍🏽
Great @mediacloud.bsky.social use by the ever-talented @kendrawrites.com (for FAIR), looking at prevalence of Cuomo in news overage vs. other primary candidates.
fair.org/home/cuckoo-...
fair.org/home/cuckoo-...
July 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Great @mediacloud.bsky.social use by the ever-talented @kendrawrites.com (for FAIR), looking at prevalence of Cuomo in news overage vs. other primary candidates.
fair.org/home/cuckoo-...
fair.org/home/cuckoo-...
Been diving into ICE-related arrest data for a few reasons lately. Scope is massive in MA. Mapping this is hard. Love to see @bostonglobe.com tracking & verifying arrests 👏🏽 Hope they share as a resource. This @johnhancock.bsky.social map helps, but I think would work better as a 2-color choropleth?
July 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Been diving into ICE-related arrest data for a few reasons lately. Scope is massive in MA. Mapping this is hard. Love to see @bostonglobe.com tracking & verifying arrests 👏🏽 Hope they share as a resource. This @johnhancock.bsky.social map helps, but I think would work better as a 2-color choropleth?
Another @mediacloud.bsky.social update today -- our reindexing of historical data into the new archive has caught up to our billionth story! Expect total to be around 2 billion once we finish reprocessing all our historical data. At 2019 now, working back to the first data we have, from early 2010s.
July 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Another @mediacloud.bsky.social update today -- our reindexing of historical data into the new archive has caught up to our billionth story! Expect total to be around 2 billion once we finish reprocessing all our historical data. At 2019 now, working back to the first data we have, from early 2010s.
Lots of @mediacloud.bsky.social updated this week 🎉 First, our new sever cluster is online! Our main ElasticSearch archive of online news stories is now running on a pool of 8 servers. Average queries running around 5 times faster! 🐌⃯⃯ ➡️🐆 search.mediacloud.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Lots of @mediacloud.bsky.social updated this week 🎉 First, our new sever cluster is online! Our main ElasticSearch archive of online news stories is now running on a pool of 8 servers. Average queries running around 5 times faster! 🐌⃯⃯ ➡️🐆 search.mediacloud.org
I'm helping the *input visualization* workshop at IEEE Vis this year: "visual representations that are designed to collect (and represent) new data rather than encode preexisting datasets". Send in your examples or position papers by Aug 4. inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/
June 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm helping the *input visualization* workshop at IEEE Vis this year: "visual representations that are designed to collect (and represent) new data rather than encode preexisting datasets". Send in your examples or position papers by Aug 4. inputvisualization.github.io/vis2025/
Tool update: @mediacloud.bsky.social API now supports a `story_sample` endpoint, making it easy to pull a random sample of up to 1,000 stories matching your query from our free online news archive 🎉 I added a sample to our tutorial notebooks: github.com/mediacloud/a...
June 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Tool update: @mediacloud.bsky.social API now supports a `story_sample` endpoint, making it easy to pull a random sample of up to 1,000 stories matching your query from our free online news archive 🎉 I added a sample to our tutorial notebooks: github.com/mediacloud/a...
I always learn from speaking with global audiences, who challenge my embedded assumptions and introduce me to new contexts. In East Asian timezones? I'm honored to be included in the University of Philippines Intelligent Systems Center June webinars. Register at tinyurl.com/UPISCWebinarsJune2025
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I always learn from speaking with global audiences, who challenge my embedded assumptions and introduce me to new contexts. In East Asian timezones? I'm honored to be included in the University of Philippines Intelligent Systems Center June webinars. Register at tinyurl.com/UPISCWebinarsJune2025
Working on a keynote for @ach.bsky.social 2025 conference next week! Will explore connections between public interest tech & digital humanities. Register, or just lose an hour playing with their fun interactive background like I did, at ach2025.ach.org/en/
June 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Working on a keynote for @ach.bsky.social 2025 conference next week! Will explore connections between public interest tech & digital humanities. Register, or just lose an hour playing with their fun interactive background like I did, at ach2025.ach.org/en/