Derek Willis

Hi, I’m Derek. I love using data to find and tell stories. And asking questions.

Hoops Reloaded

I first need to apologize to and thank a guy named Chuck Morris.

Introducing Congress Press

I began collecting congressional press releases more than a dozen years ago for the reasons I usually start collecting anything: I was interested in them and there wasn’t a…

All the Claude (Code) Things

Of nearly all of the potential uses for Large Language Models, perhaps the best and most defensible is using them to write code. During the recently-completed fall semester…