While the article doesn't mention it, the Narrative Science software and company is a spin-off of this project[1], developed here at Northwestern University as

While the article doesn't mention it, the Narrative Science software and company is a spin-off of this project[1], developed here at Northwestern University as a joint project between the Medill School of Journalism and the AI department. [1] http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/ http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/