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 and their effect on key indicators
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
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A tutorial on how I set up my machine — potentially helpful but almost certainly slightly outdated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