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Dan Nguyen is a programming journalist currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University.
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Moving from WordPress to Jekyll
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Moving from WordPress to Jekyll. July 6, 2015. This post is in-progress. After reading the Stack Exchange engineering team’s excellent writeup. On how they moved their WordPress blogs to Jekyll, I’ve decided to quit procrastinating and start my own Jekyll-powered blog blog.danwin.com. I’ve used WordPress for my blog at danwin.com. For the past 5 years and I’ll probably leave that as is, as I don’t have the Stack Exchange team’s talent or patience for doing the content migration. It’s funny how a few minu...
Why I've Stopped Teaching Web Scraping
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Why I've Stopped Teaching Web Scraping. July 9, 2015. This post is in-progress. To come: lots of negative thoughts about teaching web scraping to beginning programmers. This is sparked by a recent NICAR-L question. Here’s my partial response, to be later elaborated when I have time:. Dan Nguyen is a programming journalist currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University. You can find my older blog at danwin.com. My Stanford University Profile. The Stanford Computational Journalism Lab.
A (proposed) guide for exploring the Open FEC API
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A (proposed) guide for exploring the Open FEC API. July 9, 2015. This post is in-progress. More fine work by 18F. The new API is just very tasty icing on the cake. The FEC has long been in the forefront of transparency in the U.S. federal government. As the Sunlight post. Some topics I’d like to cover:. How to find campaign contribution totals per cycle. Given a candidate, how to find totals per cycle. Or lifetime of committee. You can find my older blog at danwin.com. My Stanford University Profile.
Onwards RAGBRAI 2015
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July 24, 2015. The lapse in posting is because I’m on RAGBRAI 2015. And because I am severely dehydrated and sore. Dan Nguyen is a programming journalist currently teaching computational journalism at Stanford University. You can find my older blog at danwin.com. My Stanford University Profile. The Stanford Computational Journalism Lab. Public Affairs Data Journalism. Civic Methods in the Public Sphere. Bastards Book of Ruby. Bastards Book of Photography. Bastards Book of Regex.
Best and free R-language resources shortlist
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Best and free R-language resources shortlist. July 27, 2015. Similar to my free Python guides list. Shortlist, here’s a shortlist (YAML-version). Of best and free R books, guides, and tutorials:. Beginner’s guide to R: Introduction. By Sharon Machlis Our aim here isn’t R mastery, but giving you a path to start using R for basic data work: Extracting key statistics out of a data set, exploring a data set with basic graphics and reshaping data to make it easier to analyze. An Introduction to R. By The R-Co...
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MySQL (and SQLite) for Data Journalists - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. MySQL (and SQLite) for Data Journalists. My first task since joining Stanford was to create the Public Affairs Data Journalism I. A required course for all students in the graduate program. As public records and government workings deserve their own class, I didn’t know for sure if it’d be worth teaching SQL to my students, most of whom hadn’t gone beyond Excel. Because I’m dealing with a variety of operating systems, from Windows XP ...
Lonnie Johnson, the Millionaire Super-Soaker-Inventing Rocket Scientist Who is Trying to Save the World - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Lonnie Johnson, the Millionaire Super-Soaker-Inventing Rocket Scientist Who is Trying to Save the World. Lonnie Johnson, the inventor of the Super Soaker. This recent headline caught my eye (which reflexively winced from painful memories of point-blank encounters):. Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro. Not just because it involved one of my favorite pre-video-game toys, or because of the money involved. But that there was a.
Peter Norvig on cleverness and having enough data - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Peter Norvig on cleverness and having enough data. I’m reposting this entry, near verbatim, from The Blog of Justice. Which picks out a keen quote from Google/Stanford genius, Peter Norvig, from his Google Tech Talk on August 9, 2011. But I also think about it in the context of people who. The flaw here is, well, if you don’t have enough data (i.e. more than a few thousand data-points or observations), then no computer program...W3rules ...
Fran Allen and the social relevance of computer science - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Fran Allen and the social relevance of computer science. Frances Allen's biography, as seen on computerhistory.org. If you haven’t read it yet, Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work (2009). The way they do. So in a book full of interviews worth reading, it’s not quite accurate to say that Fran Allen. It’s better to say that Allen is. Allen is also different in that she’s the only woman in Seibel’s book, and understandably, she has a few...I feel it...
Goodbye WordPress; hello Jekyll and Markdown - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Goodbye WordPress; hello Jekyll and Markdown. WordPress is great software, but the fact that it takes many minutes to just publish a simple, HTML-error-ridden post has kept me from updating this blog. So I’m planning on doing future blogging at blog.danwin.com. It takes a little time to set up the Jekyll instance. This entry was posted in thoughts. July 7, 2015. I'm a programmer journalist. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Top Posts and Pages.
Preparing eggs and programming - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Preparing eggs and programming. As an egg fan, I loved this Times dining article about a “tasting expedition”. Of the high- and low-brow egg dishes in New York. As a programmer, there were two passages that stuck out to me about the nature of skill, complexity, and genius behind cooking (and programming):. And be continuously observant and critical of the patterns you come across. This entry was posted in thoughts. June 2, 2014. Everything ...
Our complex addiction to medical spending - the New Yorker on the "pain-pills problem" - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Our complex addiction to medical spending – the New Yorker on the “pain-pills problem”. What we extravagantly spend on healthcare has become even more a pressing topic with the recent release of Medicare spending data the most detailed dataset yet made public. And of course, the ongoing implementation of Obamacare. Unfortunately, Aviv’s article, titled “ Prescription for Disaster; The heartland’s pain-pills problem. He responded that sixty ...
Github activity for 2013: 1,500+ commits, 52-day-streak - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Github activity for 2013: 1,500 commits, 52-day-streak. My Github commit activity in the past 365 days. Just noticed that because of that damned Thanksgiving break, my latest Github commit streak ended at 52 days in a row. Doesn’t show most of my commits as I’ve been using Github for Skift company projects. But I’ve been tentatively trying to design some open-source utilities. One of them is yearbook. Earlier this year I made it a goal ever...
The big, ignored business of extorting undocumented migrants - danwin.com
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Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. The big, ignored business of extorting undocumented migrants. Ive been a long-time New Yorker subscriber but its been a long time since Ive sat down with the print edition to read a story. Today, I sat still long enough to finish Sarah Stillmans stunningly well-reported piece, Where are the Children? In the April 27, 2015 edition. Even as lengthy as Stillmans article is, there are passages that themselves could be feature-length articles:.
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Danville Bed and Breakfast
Danville Bed and Breakfast. Tuesday, May 21, 2013. It takes a Village to have a Wedding. It takes a Village to have a Wedding. Weddings and receptions have changed greatly over the past 50 years. In the 1980’s weddings went super-sized. More guests, grander reception venues, elegant food and settings all became the norm. How big? How much of a WOW factor did it have? Stock the Bar parties are a new trend in wedding showers. Guests bring their favorite bottle of liquor or wines to be served during the...
Daniel Voyles – My thoughts, rants, and mostly tweets – in convenient blog form.
My thoughts, rants, and mostly tweets - in convenient blog form. March 18, 2018. Cardinals at Braves has started. Starting Pitchers: STL L Weaver vs. ATL S Newcomb. (ESPN) 12:07:48. March 17, 2018. Marlins at Cardinals has started. Starting Pitchers: MIA S Alcantara vs. STL M Wacha. (ESPN) 12:08:01. Cardinals at Nationals has started. Starting Pitchers: STL M Mikolas vs. WSH G Gonzalez. (ESPN) 12:09:19. March 16, 2018. Orioles at Cardinals has started. (ESPN) 12:10:05. March 15, 2018. March 14, 2018.
Dan Wainman
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Dan's Tech Management Blog
Dan's Tech Management Blog. Thoughts and observations incurred managing the IT department for a medium sized call center. Saturday, June 14, 2008. Moving to the virtual world. A while ago, KP OnCall decided it needed to do something different to attract and retain nurses, a notoriously constrained workforce. After years of enduring the contrasting issues of double digit growth and difficulty hiring enough staff to sustain the growth, we embarked on the path towards utilizing remote agents. I'm a PMP, yo.
DWH en BCN | El día a día de ser programador en BCN
El día a día de ser programador en BCN. Qué hace el guión el los Twig blocks? CRM para mi – DWH CRM. Code Kata – Bowling Game. Opiniones sobre “Is TDD dead? Code Kata – Bowling Game DWH en BCN. En Opiniones sobre “Is TDD dead? Han pasado unos días sin nada nuevo aquí … la razón de ello es que he encontrado trabajo y llevo dos semanas intentando poner orden un unas cosas antes de que el nuevo curro me ocupa todo el tiempo. Seré el nuevo Head of IT para M&A International. 21 abril, 2015. Si abres el archivo.
Dan Nguyen's blog
August 13, 2015. How to get started with open-source. In response to a reddit/learnprogramming thread on working on other people’s projects: . Read more. August 1, 2015. Interesting FOIA datasets and ideas from MuckRock. The MuckRock news and records site is a great place to find datasets and story ideas. Here are some interesting examples. July 30, 2015. Analyzing Oklahoma's Earthquakes with Python, R, and ggplot2. Counting Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Dan Nguyen July 30, 2015 . Read more. July 27, 2015.
Rhino Meatloaf
Sunday, April 25, 2010. Moving to a new blog! EDIT (JAN 2012): My other blog is now public to view. Ask me for the address or come visit me on Google . Friday, November 27, 2009. I select. Infantry! The room erupted in some of the loudest applause that day. This was unexpected from me. My captain was ecstatic: "That's what I'm talking about, Wolf! Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Saturday, November 14, 2009. Combatives with choke out! OC Edwards choked out OC Foster during a combatives sparring match. The...
The "I Hate to Blog" Blog | Is this sentence a question.
The I Hate to Blog Blog. Is this sentence a question. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Net Neutrality in 2017. November 24, 2017. November 24, 2017. I wrote this back in 2014 and it generated a bunch of comments on Facebook. It’s posted here again because of recent FCC announcements about the potential revocation of net neutrality regulations that were instituted in the previous administration. I stand by my initial belief that the Internet has become a utility to the Nation and unless...
Dan Wong
Because I’m terrible with e-mail. And voice mail. Quoted from New York Magazine: Tinkerer-in-chief Joe Sexton bolts New York Times. Love this line from the New York Magazine. Story about New York Times sports editor Joe Sexton leaving the company:. 8220;Do shit you’re not supposed to do. If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then you are living something of the coward’s life. Ain’t no room for cowards in journalism at this moment in time. Occupy Oa...
Dan Woodward
The Reading Edge™ Series. A group of fonts for small sizes on screens. Via The Reading Edge™ Series – A group of fonts for small sizes on screens. Wow, Klim Foundry does a deep dive into the nuances of the monospaced character and emerges with a piece of typo-mastery, Pitch. Via Klim Type Foundry - Pitch Design Information. Great read and great article design. I can see a lot more featured stories being designed like this. Via ESPN - OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis - E-ticket. I'm Dan Woodward&...
DANY Blog - Erfahre alles über Fitness, Wellness & BeautyDANY Blog - Erfahre alles über Fitness, Wellness & Beauty
Trends & News. Werden wir schlauer durch Sport? Fehler beim Brusttraining vermeiden! Nude Look – in wenigen Schritten zum natürlich frischen Make-Up. Werden wir schlauer durch Sport? Verbesserte Gehirnleistung durch regelmäßigen Sport bestätigt? Diejenigen, die bereits länger sportlich aktiv sind, haben es schon immer geahnt. Wer regelmäßig (mind. zwei Mal pro Woche) ein intensives Intervalltraining absolviert, der kann davon profitieren, dass . Fehler beim Brusttraining vermeiden! Nina Donhauser zeigt D...
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