Jonathan Stray is a freelance journalist and computer scientist. He has worked as an editor at the Associated Press, a freelance reporter in Hong Kong, and an algorithm designer for Adobe Systems. He teaches computational journalism at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.
Transparency is pointless if no one is watching, but there’s no way a human reporter can keep up with the open data created by a modern city, let alone a country. Software agents, sometimes called bots, can monitor vast … Read more
