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🧮 Data journalist · 🟠 @Reuters editor · 🤖 Computer programmer · 🦣 https://nitter.cf/t.co/JRAOPpGqTa · 🗣️ Send tips to [email protected]

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Joined April 2008
🌡️ Today, I'm happy to launch the "Reuters Climate Monitor," a live data dashboard that aims to track the slow-moving impact of climate change at the speed of the news. You can find it at reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE…
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🌡️ To the surprise even of many doctors, recent studies from different parts of the world show that heat waves menace pregnant women and the babies they carry, escalating the odds of everything from congenital defects to miscarriages to preterm births.
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Since then, I've made a run of media appearances to explain our approach. You can tune in to Reuters' "On Assignment" youtube.com/watch?v=MyS9pG3h… or LAist radio omny.fm/shows/news-reports/c…
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Here's the latest lesson plan from "Truth-Telling 101," the introduction to data journalism I'm teaching at the School of Visual Arts. palewi.re/docs/truth-telling…
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It features my sermon on "working from the outside in," a tried-and-true approach enshrined in the wake of Watergate. palewi.re/docs/sva-dvc-3342a…
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We were also joined by our second guest of the semester, Haidee Chu of The City Reporter. thecityreporter.nyc/author/h… She shared how her team combined careful data analysis with on-the-ground reporting to map out ICE's activity in New York.
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🌡️ Tune in to this week's edition of "On Assignment," where Maurice Tamman and I discuss our work analyzing the growing threat of supersized heat waves. youtu.be/MyS9pG3hAGs?si=gcoT…
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Our very own Casey Miller is at #nacis26 today presenting on the open-source map stack at Reuters. nacis2026.sched.com/event/2R…
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One fruit of that: Shake-and-bake maps in our open-source component library, which allows our graphics desk to quickly crack out a map that meets our standards reuters-graphics.github.io/g…
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At #NACIS26? What to learn more. Find her!
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Giant heat storms are scorching the Earth. Reuters investigative data editor Mo Tamman helped develop a new way to measure them and reported on the biggest one ever recorded. Got questions? Join our Reddit AMA: reut.rs/4sjQGc9
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Here's the latest lesson plan from "Truth-Telling 101," the introduction to data journalism I'm teaching at the School of Visual Arts.
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Whether she self-identifies as a data journalist or not, that was Lerner displaying the data state of mind I’ve promoted in class. palewi.re/docs/truth-telling…
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You can follow in her footsteps by merging an updated version of the city’s COVID statistics with Census data to see if the trend identified early on in the coronavirus story held up over time. palewi.re/docs/truth-telling…
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