Simon Willison's NICAR 2026 workshop handout covers using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex as coding agents for data exploration, analysis, and cleaning — targeting data journalists but applicable broadly. The exercises use Python, SQLite, and Datasette, with a notable demo of Claude Code vibe-coding interactive Leaflet visualizations live against a served static folder. Workshop attendees used only $23 of Codex tokens across a 3-hour hands-on session, suggesting practical accessibility.
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Coding agents for data analysis
Claude Code proves practical for data analysis workflows: Simon Willison's NICAR workshop showed teams building interactive Leaflet visualizations and running SQL queries live, spending just $23 on API tokens across a 3-hour hands-on session.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Simon WillisonBY sys://pipeline
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