Sr. newsroom dev @NatGeo. Previously @protocol @sfchronicle @DailyRanger
Minneapolis, MN
Joined August 2009
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Working on a project to evaluate sports teams and forecast games with Elo. Took a crack at the PWHL. The puck drops in only two days! ericjohannes.github.io/pwhl-…
Update: It worked! It found a site in June that just opened up and we were able to book it
State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations.
github.com/ericjohannes/camp…
It runs on AWS Lambda, has a Github actions CI/CD pipeline and emails me every 6 hours with sites it fins. Probably overkill but fun to learn this stuff.
The code is open source but if you use it to score a site you gotta share it with me!
State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations.
github.com/ericjohannes/camp…
I added server-side batch processing of SVG graphics to Nat Geo’s Vite build tool to make this project on the Battle of the Atlantic. I developed the story idea and gathered and analyzed the data too.
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ALT A map showing locations of sunk ships and u-boats in WWII.
I rebuilt the elections results data pipeline app for the San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst newspapers in Python and helped expand and redeploy it several times since
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You can see my work at ericjblom.com/ and resume at linkedin.com/in/eric-blom-82…
Threading a few examples
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Credit to @GaelleSeguillon for the lovely elephants as well! A pleasure to work on this story so extensively.
Lots of fun collaborating with @shallotly on the dev side and for maps and illustrations with @MonicaSerrano_ @FossilFracas and @mizfellenz
But wait! There's more elephants stories here nationalgeographic.com/magaz…
How do elephants survive in rain forests, savanna and deserts? We've got you covered nationalgeographic.com/premi…
A little preview of the awesome graphics and videos here
All the maps are d3-powered svgs rendered server side!
ALT A map of the North Atlantic showing locations of ships sunk in a battle.
Dug into some data about ships sunk in WWII for this story. See how the Battle of the Atlantic shifted across the ocean during the course of the war
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ALT A screenshot showing ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in the second quarter of 1941 along with total casualties and ships sunk up to that point in the war.
This book also explains where I got my love of cycling and pickles and my inability to throw away food