When Matt Mitchell saw the news anchor mention his home country of Grenada, he sat up straight. But his excitement soon turned to confusion when this trusted tv newscaster mispronounced names and places in Grenada, and declared facts that conflicted with reports from his relatives back home. It made him think hard about where data comes from, who tells it, and how it can shift as it exchanges hands. That was the beginning of his passion for news and his work in data journalism. He tells us about his journey, what it’s like to work at the NY Times, and how he combines his love of code to his passion for the news.
Show Links
- Braintree (sponsor)
- Firehose Project (sponsor)
- Lean Startup
- Source Blog (Mozilla’s Open News)
- Jay Lee
- Test Driven Development
- Elastic Search
- The Quartz Guide to Bad Data
- Aron Pilhofer
Shoutouts
- Sponsored Shoutout: Firehose Project (Saron)
- OWASP Top Ten Project (Matthew)
- Sponsored Shoutout: Braintree click for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free (Saron)
- Hack.me (Matthew)
- Interactive Graphics for the Newsroom Couch Potato (Matthew)
- Data Journalism Handbook (Saron)
- Data and Society (Saron)
- Stuff We Liked: Clever Data Visualization and a Year in Outrage (Saron)
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