
Organización/Lugar de trabajo
St. Paul Pioneer PressUbicación
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United StatesOcupación
Political Reporter at St. Paul Pioneer PressSector
Writing / Publishing
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I'm a journalist, a coder, a designer and a cartographer who loves using a broad skill-set to explain the news. For eight years I've been covering state policy and politics through traditional articles and new media forms. I love drawing on both data and shoe-leather reporting to cover complex topics in a way that's easy for people to understand, and use both traditional articles and new media tools to convey this important information to readers. One of those new tools is code, a powerful way to gather and visualize information. I've used MySQL, JavaScript, Python and Bash to assist my reporting, but especially have used R to acquire, analyze and plot everything from arrest data to ele...