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@michelleminkoff

Data Journalist at Associated Press () in Washington, DC. Teaching data journ . Combining passions for data, journ & tech. (Notice a pattern?)

Washington, DC
Joined August 2008

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  1. Never so happy as when I'm buzzing with things to do, and new ideas. The "calming down while sick" thing is over, ramping it up a bit.

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    So excited to announce that has created a Spanish-only version of NICAR-L. cc

  3. Sometimes, the day to day means bigger goals can fade. A reminder: This is what it means to be

  4. Great news for our team, data journalism and ! Just thrilling all around!

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    With $400,000 from , to bring data journalism to wider array of news organizations. See news & video:

  6. One of my millions of fav things about being a journonerd is when I have a sore throat, the computer doesn't judge me for my raspy voice.

  7. Been living on DayQuil for past 5 days, and finally off of it in time to leave on vacation tomorrow. Day before leaving === adrenaline rush!

  8. Apply to the internship! Gamechanger! Data! Dev! ! Palm trees! My first paid data work!

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    The is looking for its 2016 summer intern. Maybe it's you! Read all about it. Then apply!

  10. New interesting, via ! The Art of Data Science, an ebook. With a section on exploratory data analysis!

  11. We're now to the point that when demonstrating skills in Python, I'm accidentally writing Ruby. Not sure if this is an achievement or prob.

  12. Talking about slope graphs, the viz thing where two lists of entities are connected by lines. Excellent overview:

  13. Successfully loop through a bunch of files on the command line, helped by , calling it a day.

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    “Let’s have a computer do what a computer’s good at, and let’s have a human do what a human’s good at” -

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    “Talent” is the word we use to describe the end result of obsession meeting opportunity & the pair of them working hard for a long time.

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    LA Times data reporter wants to learn something new with every project.

  17. Realized that this month I passed four years . Time files when you're having fun! Never could have dreamed of current geoanalysis work!

  18. No matter how much I learn, nearest neighbor algorithms are much harder than expected. But this time at least I know what to google.

  19. It's like the new version of "When Maps Shouldn't Be Maps"! via

  20. I'm on hiatus from after this quarter for a bit, to focus on health issues. Hoping to return more to public blogging/tweeting.

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