Senior Data Editor @YahooNews. Previously @PostGraphics, @FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP.) 2021-22 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown.
Providence, RI
Joined February 2010
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Just wrapped up another year teaching data viz to undergraduates and grad students at Brown! Threading a few favorites, but all 25 final narratives are worth a look. data1500.github.io/spring-20…
ALT A grid of portions of graphics produced during a data visualization class
This creativity extended to mapping as well, including a bivariate choropleth(!) and a Spilhaus projection (!!).
awang1245.github.io/birder-w…
skylarwalters.github.io/whal…
Plus plenty of well-polished implementations of more “standard” visualizations, like bubble scatters, small multiple time trends, and stacked areas.
dhan1004.github.io/flight-on…
lilangeluh.github.io/nba-nar…
anna-murphy.github.io/DATA15…
ciarameyer.github.io/data150…
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New: How the federal government is using AI
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If you're a reporter who has been laid off, know @PressClubDC is here for you.
We are offering a free, 3 month membership to those laid off this year.
The Club offers workspaces, private booths for phone calls and meetings, a gym, a library and a supportive community.
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
After nearly eight years at The Washington Post, I’m on to something new. This week I started as the Senior Data Editor on the recently formed Data Services team at Yahoo News. Excited to help build something from the ground up!
Just wrapped up my second year teaching “Data Narratives” at RISD! Here’s the great set of final data visualization/storytelling projects that the students put together, all produced via R → Illustrator data-narratives.com/
Since I moved to Providence, I’ve been teaching data visualization at RISD and Brown. Here’s a nice write-up of my class last semester at @Brown_DSI!
dsi.brown.edu/news/2024-08-2…
Journalism is tough but one benefit it does offer is variety. Here are three very different projects I got to edit over the past few weeks.
First, I worked with @sadbumblebee on the data presentation for an investigation into police abusing children washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Then, again with @sadbumblebee, a much lighter story on trends in baby names, and why there are so many Carsons/Masons/Graysons/Jacksons nowadays washingtonpost.com/business/…
Finally, with @kt_prry and Luis Melgar (and many others outside of graphics), we designed and released The Post’s first ever polling modeling page! washingtonpost.com/elections…
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Our polling average topline takeaway: Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election, but PA, WI and MI are within a typically-sized polling error.
w/ @dianesaysword, @kt_prry & Luis Melgar
washingtonpost.com/elections…
Got back into teaching data design this year with classes at @risd_gd and @Brown_DSI. Check out the great final projects that my Brown undergrads put together!
data1500.github.io/spring-20…
ALT A grid of 20 data visualization cutouts.
One of my favorite stories I've gotten to edit recently: Can YOU spot which of these actors are wearing wigs?
Come for the quiz, stay for the in-depth interviews and diagrams!
washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Tom Scocca is one of the most careful, intelligent, incisive writers and editors I have ever worked with. The human toll of the collapse of the journalism industry haunts this (excellent) story.
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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You’ve heard of the Boston Tea Party. Its 250th anniversary is Saturday.
But why is Rhode Island’s own rebellion — 18 months earlier — repeatedly scrubbed from our textbooks?
It’s a tale of who got to write our history — and blaming Harvard.
More here: washingtonpost.com/history/2…
Last week was the closest I’ve felt to a major mass shooting. Card went to my high school, and my parents were on lockdown during the manhunt.
But this has happened 450 times since 2006. This week, we relaunched our tracker on mass killings in America.
washingtonpost.com/nation/in…
