The Coding Lesson for the Rest of Us - by Florent Daudens (opens in new tab)

But the method deserves just as much attention and shows what happens when you apply editorial judgment at scale. The team first made their editorial judgment explicit: What counted as a substantive use of power and a housing decision Which legislative power was being used How each decision should be categorized A custom AI tool then applied those criteria across thousands of documents. Three journalists independently classified 121 decisions, producing 484 human answers to compare with the m...