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My name is Dan Nguyen and I'm a journalist, programmer and photographer.
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Author Archives: Dan Nguyen
The Irrationality of Price Anchoring
tl;dr summary – people will unconsciously anchor their judgment on a random number given to them, even if that number was fabricated in front of their own eyes. If you’ve never heard the term “price anchor“, you’ve undoubtedly experienced it… Continue reading
Louis C.K. thanks his fans for buying his $5 Beacon Theater Show
Louis C.K. at the Bell House, Brooklyn, 9/30/2011, originally uploaded by Dan Nguyen @ New York City. Possibly the best $10 show ever. Even the scalped tickets would’ve been worth it Louis C.K. just sent an email to everyone who… Continue reading
To find insights: ask the cage cleaners, not the veterinarians
Sometimes the great insights about how things really work can come from the people who are thought to be too far down the ladder to possibly understand the big picture. Robert M. Sapolsky, an author and professor of neurology at… Continue reading
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The Bastards Book: A Programming Tutorial for journalists, researchers, analysts, and anyone else who cares about data
Back when I wrote my “Coding for Journalists 101″ guide about a year and a half ago, I barely realized how useful code could be as a journalistic tool. Since then, after the Dollars for Docs project at ProPublica and… Continue reading
My 3,000th photo on Flickr: Watching the sunset, Battery Park
My 3,000th photo on Flickr: Watching the sunset, Battery Park, originally uploaded by Dan Nguyen @ New York City. I started using Flickr back in 2008 but joined the Pro version (which allows you to upload unlimited photos) late in… Continue reading
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Paul Newman, Scrappy Startup Entrepreneur
After watching Paul Newman in “The Hustler” on Netflix this weekend – and then reading the spectacular details of his life (according to Wikipedia) – I decided to buy his book that tells the origins of his “Newman’s Own” food… Continue reading
Tim Hetherington’s Last Libya Photos, at the Bronx Doc Center
Last weekend, the newly-built Bronx Documentary Center opened with an exhibition of fallen war photographer Tim Hetherington’s final photos. Hetherington was killed in Libya on Apr. 20, 2011, after Gadaffi forces shelled his position. Photographer Chris Hondros also died in the attack.… Continue reading
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Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
(I love that the filename for this Steve Jobs photo on apple.com is: http://images.apple.com/home/images/t_hero.png) It’s hard to believe that we’ll ever see such a passionate and imaginative inventor in this generation again. R.I.P. Steve. His 2005 commencement speech to Stanford:… Continue reading
Pilots marching on Wall Street
I had a brief moment of Internet popularity when this photo of United and Continental pilots protesting near the Stock Exchange pulled in nearly 150,000 views in a day, thanks to Reddit users’ upvotes: Of all the protest photos I… Continue reading