After our amazing 8-hour Computation+Journalism conference #cplusj21, my evening went sort of like this... But for the 8 hours prior, I had the great pleasure of partnering with @wihbey and @zivschneider and @journalims and an incredible program committee to pull together a broad, international and intensely interesting program w/ keynotes from @amandacox @dfreelon and @DavMicRot.

1964. The World's Fair is in NewYorkCity. Charles Eames& Eero Saarinen designed IBM's pavilion to demystify computation—solving a problem with a computer is "an elaboration of human-scale acts," and the solution itself can be less valuable than the insights gained in the process. “The Fair? We're There!” wrote the @nytimes, promoting a joint project in the IBM Pavilion. A visitor would write down a date on a card and "watch an electronic Ouija board gobble it up, read the handwriting, and seconds later spell out the banner headline of that day.”

Now is as good a time as any to announce our project on the 2020 Census. Mike Ananny (@ananny) from USC and I are building networks to help local newsrooms cover the census -- newscounts.org 1/ We will create partnerships between newsrooms and local computational resources like college and university statistics, social science and demography departments, and establish a series of Census newsroom fellowships. 2/