work

A miscellaneous sampling:

• A journalism exit interview — for Source, a blog from OpenNews, an interview about my time in journalism & my decision to walk away

• Silent data mismatches are compromising key COVID-19 indicators — for The COVID Tracking Project, a look into the country’s fragile & fragmented COVID-19 data pipelines

• A LONG TIME TO WAIT — for Spotlight PA and WHYY News, an investigation into Pennsylvania’s prolonged rollout of a fully electronic death reporting system

• UPMC’s claim of ‘less severe’ coronavirus strain in Pa. is not supported by science — for Spotlight PA

• Health officials failed to safeguard trust in Pa.’s coronavirus data, sowing confusion — for Spotlight PA

• A sonnet about code — for Increment

• An essay about beauty pageant data — for The New York Times

• A tutorial on how I set up my machine — potentially helpful but almost certainly slightly outdated

• An interview about newsroom automation — for Poynter

• An essay about learning languages — adapted from a talk at the 2015 Burlington Ruby Conference and later reworked for RubyConf 2016