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I run a small R&D lab for an unnamed subsidiary of the company that owns Google. Our mandate is to come up with new technologies that change the economics of telecoms, which, if we are successful, may help get hundreds of millions of people online. My coworkers operate a carrier neutral metro fiber network in Kampala and other coworkers are busy building crazy fast internet for America. I like this job.
I currently teach journalism at Stanford, with a focus on computational methods and programming. It's a good school and I like working with students, and I can work on research and my own learning. But I'm not used to the pace and lack of deadlines and I don't like the Bay Area compared to New York. My favorite job at this point was working as a developer at ProPublica, for the kind of projects we did and for being i…
how would someone who's been doing distributed systems and genetics for 8 years make the switch to something equivalent of five thirty eight, or other data driven outfits?
I currently work at an ad agency (we call ourselves a "boutique data-driven marketing company") in Milwaukee. My official title is Developer, but I do a lot of things: I manage servers, code applications (HTML/CSS/Javascript, but also C, R, and loads of shell scripting), research new concepts, automate existing workflows, and so much more. Before I did this, I worked as a freelancer doing one-off website jobs for sma…
I work at an ed-tech company in the Bay Area - We're a for-profit company but we've found success in building study tools targeted at students and teachers rather than top-down school district procurement. If you're interested in working in this space, or just chatting, feel free to message me. Same to others!
I currently teach journalism at Stanford, with a focus on computational methods and programming. It's a good school and I like working with students, and I can work on research and my own learning. But I'm not used to the pace and lack of deadlines and I don't like the Bay Area compared to New York. My favorite job at this point was working as a developer at ProPublica, for the kind of projects we did and for being i…
Hm that's interesting -- what kind of programming are you teaching? Is it for journalists per se or the people who work with them? I would imagine there is some overlap between journalism and "data science". Many articles about the world would benefit from statistics derived from online data sets to back them up. But I wonder if this is really journalism, or if it's the primary source which the journalist relies on?…
The other focus I have is on SQL, which I make all of the students learn in the required course I teach. For many students, it's the first programming they've ever done...and it's directly applicable in data journalism work. Here's a couple of sample midterms:
- http://www.padjo.org/2014-10-23/
- http://2015.padjo.org/assignments/midterm-wsj-medicare-walkt...
I currently teach journalism at Stanford, with a focus on computational methods and programming. It's a good school and I like working with students, and I can work on research and my own learning. But I'm not used to the pace and lack of deadlines and I don't like the Bay Area compared to New York. My favorite job at this point was working as a developer at ProPublica, for the kind of projects we did and for being i…
sounds like you might be the compjour.org instructor? if that's the case, big fan! followed along on my own and it got me interested in journalism. how would someone who's been doing distributed systems and genetics for 8 years make the switch to something equivalent of five thirty eight, or other data driven outfits?
The other part of it is to demonstrate a good sense of the state of civic affairs. You can actually do quite well with average talent in programming and statistical skill...the bottleneck when it comes to data journalism is knowing the quality and quantity of data that is actually kept and produced by civic entities. Basically, being a good researcher will pay immense dividends...all of my best projects have literally been just being able to find or being aware of information that has already been publicly made available (and the legal/institutional reasons for the precedent).
IQuantNY is one of my favorite examples of non-traditional journalists doing great things in civic data analysis using already publicly available datasets: http://iquantny.tumblr.com/
It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency.
My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big french administration, bypassing their hellish processes), I also help in copywriting, system administration, monitoring, and the most interesting : machine learning using a huge amount of economic/recruitment data to predict which companies will hire. We have pretty good results!
It's a great gig and hopefully of social value to France which needs it at the moment (unemployment is at an all-time high right now).
I left college at the end of freshman year to work as a product/software developer at a vehicle data company. It's an absolute blast; my team is great and the environment couldn't be better. After 4:30, I have total freedom to work on side projects without distraction. I'm learning more than ever before and I'm meeting all kinds of interesting people.
I currently work in a French administration predicting which companies are likely to hire in the next 6 months (in France). It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency. My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big fr…
I currently work in a French administration predicting which companies are likely to hire in the next 6 months (in France). It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency. My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big fr…
What are the use cases for this kind of data?
75% of the job market is "hidden" (jobs that were filled without the company ever posting a job ad). We help the job seekers to identify this hidden job market.
I help run an general purpose applied computation R&D lab for a medium sized non-profit. In the last year we've worked in fields as far reaching as bioinformatics to cyber defense to finance. In the meanwhile, we've helped develop faster disease detection assays to improving safety in transportation. We get to play with lots of big computers, pitch new ideas, and can have immediate impact on people's lives. I love th…
How did you get this into kind of work? I've been working in dev for 20 years, web dev since 2000, and it's pretty depressing that doing good work just means extra profit for a shareholder :(