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My name is Dan Nguyen and I'm a journalist, programmer and photographer.
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Category Archives: works
The free list of free New York museums: iheartnymuseums.com
Last Wednesday, in my haste to get it over with before I forgot about it after a weekend at NICAR, I threw up a hand-compiled chart of New York museums and other cultural attractions, focused primarily on when they were… Continue reading
dataist blog: An inspiring case for journalists learning to code
About a year ago I threw up a long, rambling guide hoping to teach non-programming journalists some practical code. Looking back at it, it seems inadequate. Actually, I misspoke, I haven’t looked back at it because I’m sure I’ll just… Continue reading
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Tags coding, Dollars for Docs, journalism, programming, propublica, Python, ruby, tutorial
Google Refine, a.k.a. Gridworks 2.0 released; ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” featured.
Good news for data-nerds everywhere. The 2.0 version of Google’s fantastic data-cleaning tool, Google Refine (formerly Gridworks), has been released. And they were nice enough to feature ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs as an example of a use-case. I talked briefly… Continue reading
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Tags data-cleaning, Google, Google Refine, Gridworks, Refine
The Big Pharma-Dollars-for-Doctors Database, at ProPublica
Haven’t had much time to blog, or eat, or sleep in the past few months because of this project, but the first part just rolled out today (at about 2am, actually): at ProPublica, my colleagues and I collected the past… Continue reading
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Tags database, Dollars for Docs, propublica, ruby on rails
Eye Heart New York, a Tumblr
I tried earlier to experiment with WordPress for a separate NYC blog but decided, hell, I’m too old for this, and Tumblr is a whole lot easier. So here it is in Tumblr form: http://tumblr.eyeheartnewyork.com I’m trying out the Off… Continue reading
NYC Restaurant Health Inspections: The Cleanest Cuisines
At my New York based site, Eye Heart New York, I’ve posted an analysis of the city’s health inspection data for its 26,000 some restaurants. View the post here. It’s just a quick summary of the data. A quick summary… Continue reading
Eye Heart New York
UPDATE: It is now a Tumblr: http://tumblr.eyeheartnewyork.com It’s such a nice day out, I think I’ll make yet another blog about New York… I’ve been looking for an area to test out HTML5, some other WP themes, and to shuffle… Continue reading
Marina Abramović’s Top 50 Time Hogs; (Women sit around a lot)
OK, now it’s time to arrange the participants in the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set by number of minutes each person stared at Abramovic. The Paco dude who went about a dozen times is the only… Continue reading
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Tags flickr, Marina Abramović, moma, museum of modern art, performance art, web scraping
The Most Viewed Portraits: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, the MOMA
Thought it’d be fun to see the 200 most viewed portraits on the MOMA’s “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set. So I wrote a scraper to collect each portrait’s stats, including page views. A number of celebrities participated… Continue reading
Marina Abramović Melts Before Your Eyes
Wrote a quick scrape of the Museum of Modern Art’s gallery of Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present”. This is Abramovic’s portrait for the last 68 days (I guess the upload isn’t complete yet). (Update, all 72 days are up,… Continue reading