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Programming in Journalism

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Programming in Journalism

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7:30 - AmyJo Brown will present on how programming is used in journalism.

8:00 - Andrew McGill will present on multiple projects from the Post Gazette's DataBurgh initiative

  1. Where's Bill (web scraping with PHP/Python, SQL, some visualization stuff)

  2. Some of the mapping projects (GIS, Mapbox)

  3. Visualizing fracking with D3

  4. PSSA scores and how your school stacks up (SQL, Bootstrap framework)

More about the speakers:

AmyJo Brown is an independent journalist, passionate about public records and mining data.

Andrew McGill is a print and media journalist with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he writes data-driven stories and designs interactive web applications to tell a story.

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