Jul 14 2019 39 mins 285
In this episode, we chat with Sandeep Junnarkar, Director of Interactive Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He tells us about his journey into code launching the New York Times on the web, what data journalism is and how to do it, and why it’s important to tell stories through code. Show Links Square (sponsor) Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) Actualize (sponsor) Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Excel Python pandas JavaScript D3 JSON Hate Index Beautiful Soup gender-guesser NLTK fuzzywuzzy Lodash jQuery Sandeep Junnarkar Sandeep Junnarkar is an associate professor and the director of Interactive Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. The program’s goal is to train students to use coding to gather and analyze data that can be visualized in unique ways, allowing audiences to explore that content. He previously worked for The New York Times on a team that first brought the publication onto the Internet and Web.
