services and specialties
data journalism
For Blacksmith's data journalism work, we learn your subject matter, identify data releases and data sources with information that matters to your audience, and write digestible, insightful articles to use for your website, newsletter, or really any other publication. We don't care about credit, so we're happy to ghostwrite, too. statistical models
If there's one thing we get nerdy about here, it's statistical models, sometimes called machine learning models. Basically, we'll take your dataset and research questions, then build a model to answer them. We predict economic trends, identify key relationships, and can even built models that assign classifications to bodies of text.survey research
OK, so telling you that we get nerdy about only one thing was a lie because survey research definitely counts, too. We love to work with our clients to identify research questions, prepare a survey and analysis plan to address them to their fullest extent, and write beautiful reports that you can publish to your audience or share with executives for key business insights.