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4 Apr 2023
We are SO excited about this!
@kcrowebasspro is going to level up @wpdatateam's mapping analysis game and kill it in this important position: washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/0…
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3 Apr 2023
Excited to see @EmilyGiam, @ccemorse, @joeptone and the rest of the talented & wickedly collaborative team of reporters and editors who dove deep into the experience of Black NFL coaches be named an @IRE_NICAR finalist for sports investigative reporting: ire.org/2022-ire-award-winne…
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2 Mar 2023
Most of the team is at #NICAR23 this week, come find us!
Today:
- @abtran taught R viz techniques in the a.m.
- @jeremybmerrill is de-mystifying cryptocurrency data at 4:45
- @dataeditor and @abtran
are talking about investigating pay inequities in your newsroom at 4:45
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3 Mar 2023
Today's #NICAR23 lineup from @wpdatateam & friends:
- @jeremybmerrill discussed mining social media
- @Jdharden is teaching string functions in spreadsheets at 2:15
- FODT (friend of data team) @aadittambe talks github scrapers at 2:15
- @dataeditor talks scraping at 3:30
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Washington Post Data retweeted
15 Feb 2023
For the last five years, reporters @JohnWoodrowCox and @dataeditor have been maintaining a unique database that tracks the total number of children exposed to gun violence at school. Learn more about their findings today at 4 p.m. ET on Reddit: redd.it/1137rx6.
ALT Text: Reddit AMA | 2/15/23 at 4 p.m. ET. Ask us anything about our school shooting coverage. More than 338,000 children have experienced gun violence since 1999, Post analysis shows.
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7 Feb 2023
Take our quiz to find out what you know about who-said-what during State of the Union addresses, by @dtkeating,
@hannahdormido and @nckmourt: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Washington Post Data retweeted
1 Feb 2023
Y'all both @ccemorse AND @Invisibae are coming back to @wpdatateam this summer! We are so, so lucky!
31 Jan 2023
Thrilled to share that I’ll be rejoining @wpdatateam as an intern this summer! Beyond excited to be a part of this team and learn from everyone in the newsroom & my fellow interns. See y'all in D.C.!
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Washington Post Data retweeted
1 Feb 2023
hello from gainesville, florida
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Washington Post Data retweeted
19 Jan 2023
~news~ I can finally share that I’ll be joining @wpdatateam @washingtonpost as a data reporter on the well being team in a couple weeks! So so excited to get started.
I’ll also seriously miss working with my fabulous colleagues at @ftdata and across the @FinancialTimes 💕
19 Jan 2023
Absolutely thrilled that the mega-talented @caitlinsgilbert will be joining @wpdatateam at the end of the month. Can't wait to see her dig in on all the data on the health and wellness beat! washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/0…
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13 Jan 2023
It's 2023. We'll only be communicating with you via fax. Plan accordingly.
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15 Dec 2022
Tag your favorite @wpdatateam member below. @meghanhoyer is Bowser.
Also: our team can take your team in Mario Kart
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8 Dec 2022
Spending our team skillshare watching @normconf lightning talks and everyone's data anxiety is now SKY HIGH
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6 Dec 2022
For the past 8 years, The Post has tracked data on every fatal police shooting across the country.
Today we’re releasing a revamped interactive & public dataset of each killing with additional fields & a more detailed methodology on how we’ve done it: washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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We’re releasing the new data in conjunction with an investigative story from @abtran, @marisa_iati and @clurhealy that found that while FBI data makes it look like fatal police shootings are plummeting, that they've actually gone up in recent years: washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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6 Dec 2022
In fact, when we started collecting this data, the FBI reported about half what we did. Last year, they collected just 1 in 6 as more departments failed to report their shootings.
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