Data editor at thetrace.org, fmr data journalism prof at Nebraska and ProPublica deputy data editor, would-be vagabond, knitter. Opinions my own yadda yadda.
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Olga Pierce retweeted
9 Jun 2022
What is the AR-15, exactly?
In our latest #AskTheTrace, @JenniferMascia demystifies the weapon currently at the center of the gun debate: thetr.ac/PEom8 (Video: @OlgaPierce)
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9 Apr 2022
This jam goes out to all those who have loved and hope someone else is still around to love them later.
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5 Mar 2022
I am JUST DEVASTATED that Access has fallen off the list.
5 Mar 2022
At #nicar22 and struck by how prevalent R has become in data journalism, so I thought it would be fun to see how the hands-on classes have changed since my early NICAR days. Found a PDF of the 2004 NICAR schedule and totaled up the types of classes then and now.
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4 Mar 2022
It's always amazed me that somehow the starving peasants are the bad guys in this movie.
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2 Mar 2022
The comments in chat were by native Russian speakers.
2 Mar 2022
An academic zoom event yesterday with 300 international participants to discuss the Ukraine situation was targeted by Russian hackers who posted pornographic images, preventing the event from continuing as planned. Great support for free and open dialogue guys.
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2 Mar 2022
An academic zoom event yesterday with 300 international participants to discuss the Ukraine situation was targeted by Russian hackers who posted pornographic images, preventing the event from continuing as planned. Great support for free and open dialogue guys.
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2 Mar 2022
I don’t think you get how devastating these words are. They’re about people abandoned to totalitarianism twice in living memory. It’s not ‘hawkish bleating’ for them to want democracies. Words matter and you are revictimizing people who have suffered greatly.
2 Mar 2022
Forget the macho hawkish bleating, here's how the West directly helped Russia invading Ukraine. First, we refused to invest in renewable energy FOR DECADES. Second, we turned the USSR into an oligarchy. Third, we made a world safe for those oligarchs. Fourth, we expanded NATO.
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2 Mar 2022
This is the most elegant solution to this question that I've seen.
r-bloggers.com/2022/03/inter…
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1 Mar 2022
The Ukrainian national anthem is a bop of course, but if you are looking for other Ukrainian music to enjoy I submit Go_A. Here is their amazing song Shum. The concrete dome in the background is Chernobyl.
Go_A - ШУМ (Official Video) youtu.be/sDeMfL8Ib9A via @YouTube
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28 Feb 2022
I have tried to stay silent but ‘there is no war but class war’ is only something you would say if you’ve been amazingly lucky in life. Devastated families, orphans, refugees living in tents, kidnapped child soldiers, those traumatized by death and violence would beg to differ.
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28 Feb 2022
Just want to address the ‘all Slavs are the same so what difference does it make if Russia takes over’ argument. This papers over decades of deliberate cultural genocide. For example, in our lifetime, Belarusian will be a dead language, gone forever, and that is not accidental.
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25 Feb 2022
Proud of this one. On a personal note I want to say that sometimes it feels hopeless, but it is never, ever true. There are so many people who can and want to help you.
25 Feb 2022
🧵 The firearm suicide rate has been rising steadily among young people in their teens and twenties over the last decade, with the sharpest increases among people of color.
Read more about our new analysis of public health data:
ALT A graphic visualizes the percent change in U.S. firearm suicide rates between 2011/2012 and 2019/2020, broken down by age and race. The country saw the highest rates of change among people aged 10-19 and 20-29, particularly those who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander (150% and 55% respectively), Black/African American (120% and 57%), Hispanic/Latino (100% and 73%), or American Indian/Alaska Native (88% and 30%).
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Olga Pierce retweeted
25 Feb 2022
🧵 The firearm suicide rate has been rising steadily among young people in their teens and twenties over the last decade, with the sharpest increases among people of color.
Read more about our new analysis of public health data:
ALT A graphic visualizes the percent change in U.S. firearm suicide rates between 2011/2012 and 2019/2020, broken down by age and race. The country saw the highest rates of change among people aged 10-19 and 20-29, particularly those who identified as Asian/Pacific Islander (150% and 55% respectively), Black/African American (120% and 57%), Hispanic/Latino (100% and 73%), or American Indian/Alaska Native (88% and 30%).
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25 Feb 2022
In 1968 the Soviet Union invaded my mother’s country. She became a refugee and wasn’t allowed to go home and see her family for 18 years. Take a minute today to feel grateful that tanks and bombs don’t determine who governs you.
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Olga Pierce retweeted
2 Feb 2022
I need great data stories to share with students. What’s the best thing you’ve read or watched lately?
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10 Jan 2022
Personal news: Way excited to announce that I'll be the new data editor at The Trace. Thanks to everyone at @teamtrace for getting me off to such a great start!
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12 Nov 2021
Thrilled to have had a small part in this. Excellent work by @champebarton at @teamtrace
thetrace.org/2021/11/califor…
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