Christopher Groskopf

@onyxfish

Data journalist, . Toolmaker. Nebraskan. Modulo enthusiast. Creator: csvkit, pym, agate, proof, etc.

Tyler, TX & Washington, DC
blog.apps.npr.org
Joined April 2009
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  2. 6 hours ago

    It's weirdly sci-fi to be reading analysis of data series covering 300 years time. It's like I'm in a Vinge novel.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Takeaway from the first 130 pages of Piketty's Capital: all other historical research projects are amateur hour by comparison to this.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Just read the words "proxy war" in as a non-speculative description of the situation in Syria. Are we really back to this?

  5. 15 hours ago

    My renewed willingness to buy books may have swung back too far in the other direction...

    10:03 AM - 12 Oct 2015 · Details
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  6. Oct 11

    I unexpectedly enjoyed reading After The Music Stopped so much, that I've decided to go for broke.

    8:25 PM - 11 Oct 2015 · Details
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  7. Oct 11

    Saw The Martian with L. Not perfect, but I can't bring myself to say anything critical of a film so wonderfully optimistic about science.

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  8. Oct 11

    This was one of the most striking things about visiting Istanbul. Beyoğlu is virtually billboard-free.

    A global movement to ban urban billboards
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  9. Oct 11

    All plans for this weekend are out the window thanks to the Star Wars Battlefront beta. Logan and I are living out shared Hoth fantasies.

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  10. Oct 10

    I for one am pleased to hear that our nation's police chiefs and mayors have a hunch about crime.

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  11. Oct 10

    Unburying this lede.

    2:47 PM - 10 Oct 2015 · Details
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    Oct 10

    You knew I loved joinery, but THIS is amazing. Solid joint configurable in three different orientations!

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  13. Oct 10

    Satellite leaf-peeping is a thing now, thanks to .

    Warm temperatures are screwing up Maine's famous foliage
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  14. Oct 10

    This is easily some of the best campaign finance journalism I've ever read. Amazingly good.

    Meet the 158 families who have given nearly half the early money in the 2016 presidential race
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    Oct 9

    An Indian City Is Getting Inundated by Creeping Toxic Foam

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  16. Oct 9

    Excellent summary of IP rules in the recently leaked TPP draft.

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    Oct 9

    Police routinely withhold body camera videos after shootings

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  19. Oct 8

    I rant, therefore I am.

    Awesome overview and critique of AMP by today. So glad I'm here, specially at times like this!
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  20. Oct 8

    A fantastic reminder that if you won't let the smart ones do journalism for you, sometimes they may do it *at you*.

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    Oct 8

    Amazing! Blue Skies and Water Ice found on . Enjoy! :-)

    8:44 AM - 8 Oct 2015 · Details
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