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Enigma Technologies | Director, Data Acquisition & Strategy | Open to all US cities / Remote | Full-Time Have you parsed a long-forgotten mainframe format? Scraped an ASP.net site?…

Yes, good point! There's a lot of crossover there and also with digital humanities folks.

Journalists have some problems that tend to be somewhat peculiar to their jobs. Some examples: * A mix of heterogeneous and often internally inconsistent data. * A lot of data that…

Hello! Author of the library here. Just want to point out that I am a journalist and very active in the data journalism community. (6+ years) Both the sites you name-check have jou…

Tasneem Raja, of Mother Jones, on computer literacy, problem solving, education and diversity.

Hey, (I'm the original author of copytext at NPR) this looks like a really nice lib. FWIW, we specifically don't do it this way, because during development we're probably refreshin…

Pym.js embeds and resizes an iframe responsively (width and height) within its parent container. It also bypasses the usual cross-domain issues.

I wrote a few words about my process for remote development & PM at NPR. Seems like it might be interesting to this audience.

For election night this year we're using a Tetris-like visualization to display the electoral votes: http://election2012.npr.org/ We've also made public the "big board" visualizati…

Yes.

@all I'm the author of the post (@onyxfish). I'm not even remotely interested in debating its merits here. You all seem well-equipped to form your own judgements. However, for the …

I'm the hacker in question and its the former ad I replied to. And yes, I'm quite gainfully and meaningfully employed with the Tribune. And no, I'm not full of shit (at least I was…