Simon Willison NICAR 2026 Workshop: Coding Agents for Data Analysis — Practitioner Handout Published
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Willison published the full handout from his NICAR 2026 workshop 'Coding agents for data analysis,' a three-hour session demonstrating coding agent workflows to data journalists covering tool use, iterative analysis, and output verification. The guide extends his Agentic Engineering Patterns work into non-software-engineering domains, providing a practitioner reference for anyone deploying coding agents on data-heavy analytical tasks.