Back on X for AI▫️biz analytics eng manager @netflix ▫️ ex-data reporter @washingtonpost ▫️ board member @newsproduct
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22 Nov 2022
I moved back to my birthplace, Los Angeles, last year, and with it came a flood of memories and reflections. So much of who we are is defined by where and how we grew up. I tried to distill my thoughts into a memoir on "upward mobility" for @puddingviz.
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18 Nov 2025
Keyboards are so 1983.
You only need one key—Monokey, the limited edition device that turns your voice into text in Monologue.
We're giving away 10, along with a free annual subscription to Monologue.
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15 Nov 2024
i'm on the job market with a paper about political sorting in the labor market! it's perhaps harder to choose your coworkers than your friends or who you follow on twitter -- could the workplace be less segregated than other places where democrats and republicans tend not to mix?
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23 Aug 2024
Today is also my last day at the paper after nearly 13 years, and this will be my last column. I'm grateful that it happened to be one about saying goodbye.
23 Aug 2024
I wrote about the legacy of Koda Farms, California rice growers for nearly 100 years, creators of the rice I've been eating all my life: latimes.com/california/story…
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27 Jun 2024
It’s time to submit session ideas and register for the NPA Summit 2024 on October 11! 🎉 newsproduct.org/summit
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24 May 2024
we gotta have a conversation
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3 May 2024
Kendrick brought business to a Chinese restaurant during AAPI Month on a diss record. Bro too good 😂
2 May 2024
This is likely the best thing to come out of the Kendrick Lamar - Drake battle:
toronto.citynews.ca/video/20…
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8 Jan 2024
The News Product Management Certification program just kicked off with its inaugural cohort! 🎉 News professionals from all over the world will have classes with industry leaders. Meet NPMC’s instructors and coaches ⬇️
newsproduct.org/blog/npmc-sp…
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"No organization is more worthy of support than this one. OpenNews is an island of sanity in an ocean of media crazy."
That's the first note we received on our donation page after we announced our end-of-year fundraising drive.
We are honored.
opennews.networkforgood.com
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4 Nov 2023
🙏🏿 what an honor. Thank you @puddingviz for the opportunity to tell this story!
'On Upward Mobility' by @aboutaaron wins Gold. See the project: informationisbeautifulawards…
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13 Sep 2023
🔔 The Examination is live!
We’re a nonprofit newsroom telling urgent stories about who and what is threatening our health — with coverage of tobacco, big food, pollution and more.
We want our journalism to empower people & inspire positive change. theexamination.org
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12 Sep 2023
I've been asked pretty much every week for the last four years whether we'd ever get anymore opioid shipment data other than from 2006-2014. I said it was unlikely to all who asked. Well, I was wrong. Come get your data from 2004-2019 now!!! washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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Aaron Colby Williams retweeted
5 Sep 2023
📢Applications are now open for our new News Product Management Certification program with @newmarkjplus & @newscatalyst, supported by Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund.
Gain product strategy, technical expertise, & change management skills!
newsproduct.org/blog/npmc-ap…
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Aaron Colby Williams retweeted
28 Aug 2023
Also if you are a student @TheNewSchool or @JournoDesign and want to learn how to code, data journalism and more, come join my class! There’s still a few spots left and it’s going to be a good time.
28 Aug 2023
is it tacky to have chosen a ~ newspaper ~ theme for my slides for the first day of class? probably.
anyways...first day of teaching a data journalism class tomorrow...any advice you wish you heard on day 1 of a journalism class you took?
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22 Aug 2023
I wrote an essay for @WIRED describing the need for a platform-independent transparency framework for our devices. I like to think of it as an Inspectability API. Summary in the thread below but you can also read the full thing here:
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16 Aug 2023
I've been trying to hold this take in but I just can't any more. The "east side" (silverlake etc) and the westside are not really that different! eastsiders stop trying to pretend like you wouldn't love all of the same stuff on the westside. You all like the same bougie things!
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You ever wonder how to keep data-intensive investigations organized & prioritized? Use this checklist as a starting place to to see if the story/experiment is worth the time. (Editor approved!) inspectelement.org/checklist…
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Aaron Colby Williams retweeted
2 Aug 2023
I lost my job yesterday. Still processing & trying to figure out next steps, but if you or anyone you know has opportunities for a cartographer & data visualizer with expertise in remote sensing data, please get in touch.
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Aaron Colby Williams retweeted
28 Jul 2023
If any record labels want to hit me up:
blackie.noise@gmail.com
Thanks
28 Jul 2023
many moons ago i did a story on an artist named B L A C K I E and had it confirmed to me on condition of anonymity that B L A C K I E’s music was being played in the studio during the Yeezus sessions.
Kanye also lifted some of the aesthetic as well.
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