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Eric Blom @ejblom

Sr. newsroom dev @NatGeo. Previously @protocol @sfchronicle @DailyRanger

Joined August 2009
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Eric Blom@ejblom
18 Nov 2024
Working on a project to evaluate sports teams and forecast games with Elo. Took a crack at the PWHL. The puck drops in only two days! ericjohannes.github.io/pwhl-…
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Eric Blom@ejblom
17 May 2023
Update: It worked! It found a site in June that just opened up and we were able to book it
Eric Blom@ejblom
16 May 2023
State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations. github.com/ericjohannes/camp…
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Eric Blom@ejblom
16 May 2023
State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations. github.com/ericjohannes/camp…

GitHub - ericjohannes/campr

Contribute to ericjohannes/campr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
16 May 2023
It runs on AWS Lambda, has a Github actions CI/CD pipeline and emails me every 6 hours with sites it fins. Probably overkill but fun to learn this stuff. The code is open source but if you use it to score a site you gotta share it with me!
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Eric Blom@ejblom
25 Apr 2023
I rebuilt the elections results data pipeline app for the San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst newspapers in Python and helped expand and redeploy it several times since sfchronicle.com/projects/202… sfchronicle.com/projects/202…

California election results 2020: Live coverage by county

Track results from the presidential race, House and Senate races. See live election updates for California propositions, San Francisco and Bay Area races and measures.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
25 Apr 2023
I added server-side batch processing of SVG graphics to Nat Geo’s Vite build tool to make this project on the Battle of the Atlantic. I developed the story idea and gathered and analyzed the data too. preview.nationalgeographic.c…
A map showing locations of sunk ships and u-boats in WWII.

ALT A map showing locations of sunk ships and u-boats in WWII.
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Lucas Petrin 🧌@FossilFracas
13 Apr 2023
Replying to @ejblom @shallotly @mizfellenz
Credit to @GaelleSeguillon for the lovely elephants as well! A pleasure to work on this story so extensively.
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Eric Blom@ejblom
13 Apr 2023
How do elephants survive in rain forests, savanna and deserts? We've got you covered nationalgeographic.com/premi… A little preview of the awesome graphics and videos here
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Eric Blom@ejblom
13 Apr 2023
Lots of fun collaborating with @shallotly on the dev side and for maps and illustrations with @MonicaSerrano_ @FossilFracas and @mizfellenz But wait! There's more elephants stories here nationalgeographic.com/magaz…

May 2023 Issue

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
17 Mar 2023
Dug into some data about ships sunk in WWII for this story. See how the Battle of the Atlantic shifted across the ocean during the course of the war nationalgeographic.com/histo…
A screenshot showing ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in the second quarter of 1941 along with total casualties and ships sunk up to that point in the war.

ALT A screenshot showing ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in the second quarter of 1941 along with total casualties and ships sunk up to that point in the war.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
17 Mar 2023
Fascinating data compiled by x.com/mapsterman at mapsterman.maps.arcgis.com/a…

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Eric Blom@ejblom
17 Mar 2023
All the maps are d3-powered svgs rendered server side!
A map of the North Atlantic showing locations of ships sunk in a battle.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
21 Feb 2023
$8 for this?
A screenshot from twitter saying "Trending in Minnesota: Minnesotans"

ALT A screenshot from twitter saying "Trending in Minnesota: Minnesotans"
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Eric Blom@ejblom
24 Jan 2023
I wrote a book! It’s an oral history of my grandpa. It started as a personal project but now is out in the world. My cousin worked on it with me Available here store.bookbaby.com/book/pake
A book called "Pake: The Oral History of a Frisian Immigrant" sits on a table next to a cup of coffee.

ALT A book called "Pake: The Oral History of a Frisian Immigrant" sits on a table next to a cup of coffee.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
24 Jan 2023
“Pake” (pah-cuh) is Frisian for “grandpa.” My pake lived through the Depression, survived the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, immigrated to the US and raised 10 kids with my grandma. Quite a life
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Eric Blom@ejblom
24 Jan 2023
This book also explains where I got my love of cycling and pickles and my inability to throw away food
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John Tomanio@JohnTomanio
19 Jan 2023
Mud architecture of Burkina Faso's Kassenna people. Great work by @MonicaSerrano_ @shallotly and Ronald Paniagua nationalgeographic.com/magaz…

Explore how traditional mud homes keep you cool

Thick walls, small windows, and efficient designs have for centuries been part of Burkina Faso’s cooling architecture. Today, they’re a modern way to beat the heat.

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Eric Blom@ejblom
18 Jan 2023
The timeline has been garbage recently. I see lots of tweets I didn't ask for. The worst are labeled <topic Twitter thinks you're interested in>. I didn't ask for this So I tried to kill this behavior, but I couldn't. Example of what I don't want:
A tweet suggested to me based on the "DC Extended Universe" topic

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Eric Blom@ejblom
18 Jan 2023
Some topics makes sense based on what I read and watch, "Country Music," "Tech news" others maybe based on my demo (still yikes) "Joe Rogan experience." Others are funny. I don't know who some of these people are, and I'm not a "Libra" or "Sagittarius" or a horoscope person
A list of topics Twitter thinks I'm interested in, including "Tech news" and "Country music"

ALT A list of topics Twitter thinks I'm interested in, including "Tech news" and "Country music"

A list of topics Twitter thinks I'm interested in including Sagittarius, LIbra, Shane Dawson and Tana Mongeau

ALT A list of topics Twitter thinks I'm interested in including Sagittarius, LIbra, Shane Dawson and Tana Mongeau

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Eric Blom@ejblom
18 Jan 2023
But here's the kicker, you can click the "x" to "dismiss" on all the topics. But if you reload the page it's just populated with new topics. No matter what you do, stuff like "EDM," "Dallas Cowboys" and "WWE" comes back and it'll be "right in my your Home timeline." Love it.
A list of Twitter topics that I dismissed.

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A new list of topics Twitter has me following, including EDM, WWE and the Dallas Cowboys

ALT A new list of topics Twitter has me following, including EDM, WWE and the Dallas Cowboys
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