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We are SO excited about this!
@kcrowebasspro is going to level up @wpdatateam's mapping analysis game and kill it in this important position: washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/0…
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Excited to see @EmilyGiam, @ccemorse, @joeptone and the rest of the talented & wickedly collaborative team of reporters and editors who dove deep into the experience of Black NFL coaches be named an @IRE_NICAR finalist for sports investigative reporting: ire.org/2022-ire-award-winne…
Most of the team is at #NICAR23 this week, come find us!
Today:
- @abtran taught R viz techniques in the a.m.
- @jeremybmerrill is de-mystifying cryptocurrency data at 4:45
- @dataeditor and @abtran
are talking about investigating pay inequities in your newsroom at 4:45
Today's #NICAR23 lineup from @wpdatateam & friends:
- @jeremybmerrill discussed mining social media
- @Jdharden is teaching string functions in spreadsheets at 2:15
- FODT (friend of data team) @aadittambe talks github scrapers at 2:15
- @dataeditor talks scraping at 3:30
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For the last five years, reporters @JohnWoodrowCox and @dataeditor have been maintaining a unique database that tracks the total number of children exposed to gun violence at school. Learn more about their findings today at 4 p.m. ET on Reddit: redd.it/1137rx6.
ALT Text: Reddit AMA | 2/15/23 at 4 p.m. ET. Ask us anything about our school shooting coverage. More than 338,000 children have experienced gun violence since 1999, Post analysis shows.
Take our quiz to find out what you know about who-said-what during State of the Union addresses, by @dtkeating,
@hannahdormido and @nckmourt: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Y'all both @ccemorse AND @Invisibae are coming back to @wpdatateam this summer! We are so, so lucky!
Thrilled to share that I’ll be rejoining @wpdatateam as an intern this summer! Beyond excited to be a part of this team and learn from everyone in the newsroom & my fellow interns. See y'all in D.C.!
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~news~ I can finally share that I’ll be joining @wpdatateam @washingtonpost as a data reporter on the well+being team in a couple weeks! So so excited to get started.
I’ll also seriously miss working with my fabulous colleagues at @ftdata and across the @FinancialTimes 💕
Absolutely thrilled that the mega-talented @caitlinsgilbert will be joining @wpdatateam at the end of the month. Can't wait to see her dig in on all the data on the health and wellness beat! washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/0…
Tag your favorite @wpdatateam member below. @meghanhoyer is Bowser.
Also: our team can take your team in Mario Kart
Spending our team skillshare watching @normconf lightning talks and everyone's data anxiety is now SKY HIGH
For the past 8 years, The Post has tracked data on every fatal police shooting across the country.
Today we’re releasing a revamped interactive & public dataset of each killing with additional fields & a more detailed methodology on how we’ve done it: washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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We’re releasing the new data in conjunction with an investigative story from @abtran, @marisa_iati and @clurhealy that found that while FBI data makes it look like fatal police shootings are plummeting, that they've actually gone up in recent years: washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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