Bloomberg LP - Greater New York City Area since Jun 2013
Visual Data Developer
Skills:
Ruby JavaScript HTML CSS MySQL Linux MongoDB Computer-assisted Reporting
Languages:
English
Awards:
Nomination - Digital Innovation Press Gazette - British Press Awards The Times Labs blog showcased innovative digital journalism and interactive graphics.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/45086 Winner - Knight News Challenge Knight Foundation Overview aims to help journalists find stories in large amounts of data through a new tool that finds patterns in and visualizes document sets. I created a prototype visualisation using Ruby and Gephi as part of the application process.
http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110154/ Winner - Explanatory Reporting, Large Online News Association Gay rights in the US, state by state
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states Winner - TimesOpen Hack Day The New York Times Team HappyStance, created a mashup of Twitter geo-location API data and sentiment analysis research. It measures how happy the travelers are at each stop of the New York City subways.
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/recapping-timesopen-hack-day