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Jacob Harris

Takoma Park
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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This account is no longer active, since I don't want to hang out in a Nazi bar.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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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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Word clouds considered harmful

Word clouds considered harmful

I really don't like word clouds.

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Virginia: The Governor's Race, Minute by Minute

Virginia: The Governor's Race, Minute by Minute

A chart we created quickly on election night from the election data

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The Perils of Polling Twitter

The Perils of Polling Twitter

An article looking at some of the drawbacks of treating Twitter like it's a self-reported poll.

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They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!

They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!

Twitter has a huge spambot problem, and news organizations can make major mistakes unless they compensate for…

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Twitter Subscribers Pass 1000

Twitter Subscribers Pass 1000

The early days of Twitter were exciting. I was astounded when the NYT twitter account reached a whole 1000 fo…

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