#data editor

[indiafan]

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Data Editor - MapLight - Berkeley, CA

Data Editor – MapLight – Berkeley, CA

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[fms302702]

More info from Andrei. . .

In case you're curious, Andrei sent over some links to pieces he's worked on: 

http://data.huffingtonpost.com/ -- (the poverty moves to the suburbs map I mentioned in class can be found here)

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/florida

http://projects.nytimes.com/immigration/enrollment

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/poverty-moves-to-the-subu_n_1312759.html

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/senate/illinois

And a few articles on Adrian Holovaty (the reporter Andrei mentioned who was a data viz innovator for the Lawrence Journal World):

http://www.ojr.org/the-programmer-as-journalist-a-qa-with-adrian-holovaty/

http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4258

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/jun/06/futureofjournalismadrianh

Really interesting stuff! See you on Monday for digital comics.

[cincodenada]

thestairsofyourheart replied to your photo: Today, I came across an interesting Washington...

Joel, I feel like you could make charts like this professionally. It seems like you would really like that.

Oh man, yes!  Dream job right there, no joke.  I think there are people that do that, mostly for journalism/magazines/etc.  For example, this guy, Jon Bruner at Forbes.  His one-liner is "I like to answer interesting questions by writing and programming.", and his mini-bio is as follows:

I'm the data editor at Forbes, where I explore questions that interest me by writing and programming. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006 with degrees in mathematics and economics.

And he gets paid to do that!  Lucky dog.  I would love that so much.  Maybe if I make enough good charts I can eventually impress someone and get a job?