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It’s always brighter at the Sun

January 19, 2008 – 8:14 pm

I moved to Las Vegas in September to be a newspaper man. Or at least the “news” in newspaper man. I loved Washington and the Smithsonian, but I really wanted to work for a news organization. Out of the blue, I was invited to be part of a new, world-class team building a newspaper Web [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Journalism, Las Vegas Sun, Main Page | Also tagged Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Smithsonian | Comments (6)

Web Scraping The Census With PHP

August 20, 2007 – 12:23 pm

The Census Bureau is a treasure trove of information about communities. But sometimes getting to the data and making sense of it takes a bit of work. It can be hard to find the data and even harder to wade through it, especially if you want to use it in a Web application. To help, [...]

By Josh | Posted in Journalism, Main Page, PHP, Personal Projects, Web / Multimedia Development | Also tagged American University, Census, Knight Foundation, PHP, Univeristy of Maryland | Comments (1)

Don’t Blink Or You’ll Miss

April 6, 2007 – 11:19 am

CBS Evening News aired a short piece last night about the National Zoo’s most recent giant panda artificial insemination attempt. Four or five of the shots are from footage I shot Wednesday night and the Zoo released to the press yesterday morning. All of the B-roll of the procedure is mine; it totals about six [...]

By Josh | Posted in All, Main Page, Video | Also tagged CBS, Me, National Zoo, Video | Comments (0)

Favorite projects

Decision Stations

The two banks of "Decision Station" kiosks on the Asia Trail exhibit at the Smithsonian National Zoo illustrate a very import message: conservation is hard. More

Flight Delay Calculator

Want to know the best times to fly in and out of Las Vegas? How about which airlines and cities tend to have the fewest delays? Conceived on a Friday, a geek, a designer and a computer-assisted reporter visualized FAA data for Sunday publication. View interactive

CityLab

CityLab is a proof-of-concept data exploration site I built in Django that allows users to compare 65 Bay Area cities using a mix of demographic and esoteric data. Visit site

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