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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This account is no longer active, since I don't want to hang out in a Nazi bar.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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Mapping a Deadly Day in Baghdad

Mapping a Deadly Day in Baghdad

New York Times — 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

source.opennews.org — A how-to on how I extracted data about food recalls from freeform press releases. This is designed as both an example of how we can derive data when the original source is unavailable as well as an exploration of the caveats to some work.
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The New York Times' Election Results Loader

The New York Times' Election Results Loader

source.opennews.org — A technical description of how the NYT loaded results from the AP on every election night and shared them with the front-end site reporting the results.
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The Times Regrets the Programmer Error

The Times Regrets the Programmer Error

source.opennews.org — A look at how errors could occur in data journalism and the questions this raises for the conventional corrections policies
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And Remember, This Is for Posterity

And Remember, This Is for Posterity

source.opennews.org — It's easier to read the NYT from 150 years ago than it is to read some of the finest data journalism projects from 5 years ago. We need to do a better job of archiving and planning for posterity.
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Times Haiku

Times Haiku

New York Times — 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

www.niemanlab.org — 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

New York Times — 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

source.opennews.org — 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!!

source.opennews.org — Twitter has a huge spambot problem, and news organizations can make major mistakes unless they compensate for that.
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Twitter Subscribers Pass 1000

Twitter Subscribers Pass 1000

New York Times — The early days of Twitter were exciting. I was astounded when the NYT twitter account reached a whole 1000 followers.
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