danwin.com

Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent.

I am an award-winning journalist, programmer, internationally-exhibited photographer, and writer in New York City.

I’m currently the Head of Data for Skift, a travel news and information company. My past jobs include News Application Developer at the investigative newsroom ProPublica and a reporter and newsroom programmer at the Sacramento Bee.

My passion is information and how it can be expressed through code, visualization, and writing. I’m also passionate about teaching it; I’ve self-published three online books to help people learn the relevant skills: The Bastards Book of Ruby, Photography, and Regular Expressions (an explanation for the “Bastards” moniker is here).

I occasionally blog. You can also follow me on Twitter: @dancow.

Contact me at dan@danwin.com for freelance work or other interesting collaborations.

My works

  • Bastards Books
  • Eye Heart New York
  • Flickr
  • Pinboard
  • Twitter

Recent Posts

  • Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear
  • The Great Gatsby in 3D at the MoMA
  • SummerStage 2013 App: SummerStageLove, formerly SummerStageHand.com
  • Republia Times: possibly the best game about newspapering ever made
  • A message of empathy
  • A tiny website wins 2013′s Pulitzer for National Reporting
  • Gawker’s misguided 70-characters-for-SEO memo
  • The New York Times’ history of covering (up?) breast cancer
  • Louis C.K. on success: “It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life”
  • Roger Ebert, the mind-opener
  • Ruby MiniTest Cheat Sheet, Unit and Spec reference
  • Google might remove search box from atop its results page
  • The Google death and resurrection of Amy Wilentz
  • Something worthwhile from the Adria Richards PyCon blowup
  • Catching Ernest Hemingway for Vogue
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Photos
  • @dancow
  • eyeheartnewyork
  • Bastards Books

Dan Nguyen is a developer, data analyst, journalist, and photographer. You can contact him at dan@danwin.com