Data Visualization Editor, @HoustonChron and @ExpressNews. Previously @CityMonitorAI @WFPLNews @kentuckycir @OVReSRC @PublicSourcePA
Spokane, WA
Joined February 2010
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Alexandra Kanik retweeted
Inland Northwest journalists: please join us tomorrow for a free spreadsheet training with @act_rational and don’t forget your laptops. We’ll look at ways to work with data in Google sheets and brainstorm ideas for record requests
I don't post much, but when I do you know it's important. We're hiring!
If you want to work with some of the smartest, kindest, coolest folks I've ever met writing code, making maps/charts and learning all about Houston and Texas, take a look. eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/…
If you've got any questions about the job, about the team, about the organization, about the city... don't hesitate to reach out!
LCC or News Nerdery slacks are best but whatever this "X" thing is now is fine too. Or email [email protected].
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
I realized that I've talked about the class I taught with @act_rational, but I never posted the slides or repo! If you want to learn how to use PostgreSQL + PostGIS or Pandas + Geopandas to make geographic crosswalks with Census data, I gotchu:
bit.ly/make-mapping-better (slides)
Open sourcing tipsheet: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
.@WesleyRatko has made the impenetrable understandable. Terrific explainer on Texas property tax bills, what they mean, who's getting paid, etc. Illo by the inimitable @kenduque. Orchestrated by
@act_rational
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A truer statement has never been spoken. I'm just one of so many data journalists who would not be in the industry today if it weren't for IRE and the communities they create. ❤️💻📰
For #GivingTuesday, @act_rational of @HoustonChron and @ExpressNews shares how #IREOpensDoors through training. “I never would have been able to get there, to learn how to work with data, had it not been for IRE.” Support IRE at ire.org/donate.
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
Well, that didn't last long. As our "official" designation vanishes and our @Twitter blue check mark is probably next to go, a quick note on best ways to confirm the identity of government Twitter accounts around you.
ALT logo for washington emergency management with an official designation and a blue checkmark. This is from the Twitter profile.
Literally took me like 23 years to get this one...
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When @kenduque added a shark to his illustration of how the new Ike Dike ring barrier will help prevent flooding in Galveston... we all thought he was just being "Ken". Little did we know. houstonchronicle.com/project…
The storm surge is so powerful from #HurricaneIan that it has brought a shark into the city streets of Fort Myers.
🎥@BradHabuda
News nerd friends: come work with me! This cross-market team builds awesome newsroom tools and collaborates with individual Hearst newsrooms to provide essential reader-focused news apps! If you love React, data and cool peeps, this is def the job for you!
🛎️ Job Alert <ding-ding> 🛎️
Help us spread the news: The @hearst DevHub is hiring!
🖼️ Deputy Director of Visual Storytelling: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/…
🗺️ Newsroom Engineer: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/…
Our mission is #localnews innovation and the jobs are remote friendly. 🕶️
ALT Collage of web pages. From Hearst Newspapers (HNP)
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My first OSS contribution has been merged and is now available as part of the @maplibre package (as of v2.2.0)! You can have a full-width maplibre embed without getting scroll stuck thanks to cooperative gestures 👆👆
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
New from @serrano_alej and me: The wave of book reviews and removals that swept across Texas in the last year was driven more by politicians than parents, a Houston Chronicle analysis found.
Story w/ database of 2,080 book reviews, challenges and bans:
houstonchronicle.com/news/in…
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
If you read nothing else this week, read this 👇👇
ps the graphics by @DataVizWes on this are stunning.
Spent this last spring delving into development and environment in Texas. The answer? There really is no answer and also I want to take a class on development law because wowow it's something else. All data is by @DataVizWes and it's seriously the best.
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I am so very sad that we had to create this.
Minute-by-minute illustrated timeline of the Uvalde school massacre.
@ByJulieSilva @act_rational @amatos12 @kenduque @montewithane @fotojaz @TaylorPettaway @stjbs @JBfromSA @Ellevarela @emilieeaton @gmaninfedland @bchasnoff @RandiStevenson
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Alexandra Kanik retweeted
Just gonna drop this here
If the six week abortion ban were active for the whole of 2020, nearly 8,500 procedures wouldn't have occurred.
Here's what the numbers tell us about abortions that occurred in Texas and among Texas residents in 2020:
(1/6)
houstonchronicle.com/news/in… via @houstonchron
Alexandra Kanik retweeted
Do you ever look to the curb and wonder where the garbage or recycling truck is?
I did a deep dive to try to explain why Solid Waste often is scrambling to catch up.
w/ @MarieDennise & @act_rational: houstonchronicle.com/news/ho…