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Jacob Harris

Takoma Park
As seen in: LinkedIn, Medium, The New York Times, Nature, Wiley Online Library, Memory Studies, The Atlantic, Business Wire, SAGE Publishing, Chron and
Covers:  food safety, data journalism, congress, computer security, twitter, campaigns and elections
This account is no longer active, since I don't want to hang out in a Nazi bar. Find me at @harrisj@hachyderm.io instead. It was fun until Elon ruined it.

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I am a programmer who works in the newsroom of the New York Times, helping to create data journalism projects both big and small.

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Mapping a Deadly Day in Baghdad

Mapping a Deadly Day in Baghdad

A graphic created from data extracted from the Wikileaks "War Logs" data dump

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How the Data Sausage Gets Made

How the Data Sausage Gets Made

A how-to on how I extracted data about food recalls from freeform press releases. This is designed as both an…

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The New York Times' Election Results Loader

The New York Times' Election Results Loader

A technical description of how the NYT loaded results from the AP on every election night and shared them wit…

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The Times Regrets the Programmer Error

The Times Regrets the Programmer Error

A look at how errors could occur in data journalism and the questions this raises for the conventional correc…

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And Remember, This Is for Posterity

And Remember, This Is for Posterity

It's easier to read the NYT from 150 years ago than it is to read some of the finest data journalism projects…

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Times Haiku

Times Haiku

This is a Tumblr blog of haikus algorithmically discovered within The New York Times.

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Westminster Dog Show-150th

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Westminster Dog Show-150th

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Only when I'm pretending to be a Wes Anderson character