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Ben Welsh

Reuters

I’m an Iowan living in New York City. I work as a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories.

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Code

  1. django-bakery
  2. django-greeking
  3. Django Project Template
  4. django-softhyphen
  5. django-yamlfield
  6. jquery-geocodify
  7. latimes-calculate
  8. latimes-statestyle
  9. python-documentcloud
  10. python-elections
  11. python-googlegeocoder
  12. python-tablefu
  13. Quiet L.A.
  14. Silent LA
  15. TableStacker
  16. TimelineSetter

Projects

  1. How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data
  2. Return of the Code Convenings: Elections and Updates
  3. Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine
  4. Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition
  5. US Shutdown Scuttles Data
  6. What You Need Is a News Peg

Articles by Ben

  1. Journalism lost its culture of sharing

    Here’s how we rebuild it

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    In 2016, news organizations posted more than 2,000 public projects to GitHub. Last year, that number slumped below 400, an 80% decline.

  2. Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part I

    Appreciation of usefulness and bar-raising at the end of a long, complicated year

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    As we did last year, we’ve asked a couple of dozen people from all around the news-nerd community to tell us about one thing—article, feature, app, tool, or something else entirely—that they loved in 2015. This week, we’re publishing their responses, from interactives to project management software. We hope you find here at least one thing that eases your work, inspires new angles on your stories, and helps carry you through to 2016.

  3. Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine

    A humble suggestion from your friends at the California Civic Data Coalition

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    The California Civic Data Coalition issues a challenge.

  4. Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition

    We’re here with two Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access

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    Launching with two new Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access.

  5. What You Need Is a News Peg

    Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg

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    Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg

Recently Added Code Repos

  1. Interactives Feed (Twitter bot)

  2. Google Sheet to JSON API

  3. Library

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