https://jdkato.io Data stories on language, public data, and the small things worth counting — plus the open-source tools behind them. en Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jdkato.io/stories/arxiv-hedging https://jdkato.io/stories/arxiv-hedging Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scientists are trained to qualify their claims. Across 2,400 arXiv abstracts, how much a field hedges turns out to track something simpler than caution — whether it observes the world or proves things about it. And despite the reputation, hedging isn't on the rise. LanguagePublic dataScience https://jdkato.io/stories/scotus-oral-argument https://jdkato.io/stories/scotus-oral-argument Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT At Supreme Court oral argument the justices share a fixed hour, and they split it about as unevenly as they split anything else. Six terms of transcripts show who spends the Court's time, who barely does, and the newest justice who out-talks them all. Public dataLawLanguage https://jdkato.io/stories/l2m-officiating https://jdkato.io/stories/l2m-officiating Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The NBA grades its own officiating in the final two minutes of close games and publishes the results. Eighty-nine thousand graded calls later, the errors have a shape — and the question everyone wants answered turns out to be the one the data is worst at. SportsOfficiating https://jdkato.io/stories/nba-awards-vote https://jdkato.io/stories/nba-awards-vote Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT An on-going analysis of NBA regular-season awards. SportsNBADatasets https://jdkato.io/stories/tombstone https://jdkato.io/stories/tombstone Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT A library for evaluating well-formed formulas, built to find out how much of an introductory logic course automates cleanly. Written in 2016; the demos here run the real parser. JavaScriptLogic