WHAT IS A
DATA DESK?
A brief tutorial
My name is Ben
 I sometimes go by @palewire
  All my slides are belong to
lat.ms/whoisdatadesk
I work at @latimes in #GUNDO
Our team is called the Data Desk
       We turn databases into news
We write in code
Including English
Rosanna Xia
@rosannaxia
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-hollister-ranch-public-access-20181005-htmlst
Steve Lopez
@LATstevelopez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Act
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/src/parcels.ipynb
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/src/download.ipynb
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/notebook.ipynb
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-hollister-taxes-20181020-story.html
https://github.com/datadesk/notebooks
Andy Roberson
@andyroberson22
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-sp-lakers-roster/
Ryan Menezes
@ryanvmenezes
https://beta.observablehq.com/@ryanvmenezes/nba-player-hex-calcs
We turn news into databases
Maloy Moore
@maloym
http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/daniel-r-parker/
http://homicide.latimes.com/
Nicole Santa Cruz
@nicolesantacruz
Iris Lee
@irisslee
http://homicide.latimes.com/post/bijan-michael-shoushtari/
http://homicide.latimes.com/post/bijan-michael-shoushtari/
http://homicide.latimes.com/post/autumn-johnson/
http://homicide.latimes.com/post/michael-jackson/
http://homicide.latimes.com/post/michael-jackson/
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/street-racing-analysis/blob/master/notebook.ipynb
We turn news into software
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-primary-election-results-2018/
https://python-elections.readthedocs.io
https://elex.readthedocs.io/
http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/downrslt.html-ssi
Anthony Pesce
@anthonyjpesce
https://github.com/datadesk/la-election-night
https://github.com/datadesk/packages
And vice versa
http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/
http://www.californiacivicdata.org/
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-governor-2018-money/
http://calaccess.californiacivicdata.org/downloads/latest/
Ryan Menezes
@ryanvmenezes
Maloy Moore
@maloym
Seema Mehta
@LATseema
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-newsom-cannabis-20170727-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-governor-2018-money/
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-antonio-villaraigosa-charter-school-money-governor-20180514-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governors-race-independent-expenditures-20180527-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
PLUS
BOTS
TOOLS
TOYS
THE
END
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