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Aggregation posts from New York At Work on Tumblr
As part of our Reporting and Writing 1 assignments in the fall of 2011, our class ran a series of Tumblr sites focused on sectors of the New York economy. I partnered with another student to report on...
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Photography sample: Central Park
Late in the fall semester, our RW1 class had a series of photography lessons with photojournalist John Smock. Our lessons included the use of techniques such as receding perspective, silhouetting and...
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Photography Sample: Orchid Show
I attended the last day of the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid Show, this year featuring the vertical garden designs of Patrick Blanc. Needless to say, the orchids were gorgeous. I took one of...
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My First Tableau Dashboard
One project on my plate right now involves preparing interactive visualization dashboards for the Engineering News-Record, a publication with which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed interning and continue to...
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Data Project: Scraping OSHA Inspections
One of the most challenging–yet most rewarding–projects I’ve completed for the Engineering News-Record was the building of a PHP scraper using ScraperWiki. It’s a free service for data liberators to...
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ENR Internship Clips
I’ve been out of New York for two months now (it feels like forever ago!) and working on a freelance basis with ENR while I get settled in St Louis. A summary of what I did this summer seems a bit...
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Infographics and Data Visualization class: graphic revision
I’m currently enrolled in the Knight Center massively open online course, taught by Alberto Cairo, a well-known infographics designer and instructor. For this week’s assignment, I decided to revise the...
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Infographic and Data Visualization class: infographic design part 1
This week’s assignment for the Knight Center’s MOOC involves designing a visualization around foreign aid donor transparency data. My design is simple, but it involves the inclusion of another set of...
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Infographics and Data Visualization class: infographic design part 2
Here’s the second of a series of posts regarding the design of an infographic regarding foreign aid transparency data. This time, I’ve included a panel for a US-centered story, more horizontal graphs,...
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Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Construction: My Latest for ENR
It took dozens of sources, hundreds of pages of testimony, 70 real-life court cases, and a whole newsroom, but the payoff was worth it. This week, the Engineering News-Record published a special...
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Explainer: St. Louis and Crime Rankings
Poor St. Louis. It always gets such a bad rap when media groups decide to rank cities by crime rate. Unfortunately, it’s also not a well-earned reputation. And criminologists are quite vocal about...
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Infographics and Data Visualization Class: A Few Last-Minute Mock-Ups
The class is over, and unfortunately I fell behind on uploading data visualization drawings. These are the sketches I did for the final two assignments, week 4 and week 6. In week 4, Alberto Cairo...
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I’ve moved!
As a project for the new year, I finally set up a website for myself, complete with a WordPress.org blog. There are already some new posts on that new blog, so please come check it out! The new name is...
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