DS-693 (pilot) · Algorithms and Evidence
A future offering that teaches core algorithmic ideas through journalism and public-interest investigation: data structures, complexity, computational reasoning, and evidence work.
Algorithms and Evidence was developed for journalism and data-science students who wanted to keep going after the introductory data-journalism work and use computer-science ideas in service of real investigations.
What the course is for
The point is not theory for theory’s sake. Students use algorithmic ideas to clean, structure, search, and analyze difficult datasets, then connect those technical choices back to reporting, verification, and public-interest work.
Current status
Pilot materials have existed as DS-693 directed-study work. For the purposes of this site, it is seeded as a proposed future offering rather than an active catalog item.