PBS

Up to code? An algorithm is helping Chicago health officials predict restaurant safety violations

In Chicago, the Department of Public Health has partnered with the city's data team to improve restaurant inspections by using analytics and social media to predict and detect which establishments are ...
Futurism

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

OpenAI, the AI research company originally founded by Elon Musk — before he quit in disgust — just unveiled a new algorithm called Codex that can interpret commands written in English and turn them ...

Blanton Museum debuts “Run the Code,” turning algorithms, data and AI into imm

Blanton’s Run the Code turns data and AI into interactive art. Open through August 2 alongside the Charles Butt modernism ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Interviewing the algorithm: How reporting and reverse engineering could build a beat to understand the code that influences us

Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...
Searchenginejournal.com

How The Twitter Algorithm Affects Users And Advertisers

Twitter recently released its algorithm source code on GitHub, which was met with debate and controversy. The release comes to increase transparency and give users a chance to offer feedback on how ...
The Washington Post

What you don’t know about Internet algorithms is hurting you. (And you probably don’t know very much!)

Until about three weeks ago, Pinterest was — hands down, no contest — my absolute favorite social network. Yeah, I know it lacks the cachet of Twitter or Snapchat. I understand its associations with ...