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I’m well over a year late in composing this post, but hey, better late than never, right? Spring of 2010 a couple of my homebrewing buddies and I thought we should start bloggin about beer. Our first...
View ArticleInput output errors with DBFs on Ubuntu Linux
One of my workflows involves outputting DBFs from a MySQL database to join them with shapefiles in QGIS. I often clean them up in OpenOffice Calc before making the join in QGIS. Often I’ll get a...
View ArticleCanoeing Ghost River
Carrie and I had a blast canoeing the Ghost River section of the Wolf River in West Tennessee a couple weeks ago with folks from the Wolf River Conservancy. The group had added signs in the trees to...
View Article“Cash Crop” wins national SPJ Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting
Commercial Appeal investigative reporter Marc Perrusquia and I won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting for our project “Cash Crop,” which showed...
View Article“I’m Al Qaeda” wins second place for Public Service in Online Journalism...
“I’m Al Qaeda,” Kristina Goetz’s project about the “self-described jihadist in prison for allegedly killing one soldier and injuring another at a military recruiting center in Little Rock” won a second...
View Article“Withers: Exposed” wins first place Public Service in Online Journalism Green...
Marc Perrusquia’s investigation “Withers: Exposed” won a first place for Public Service in Online Journalism award. The project, which had extensive online components I helped put together, “shows...
View Article“Landing Electrolux” wins Best in Business awards
“Landing Electrolux” won two Society of Business Editors and Writers Best in Business awards; one was for investigative reporting (which I had nothing to do with) and the other was for Creative Use...
View Article“Florida and Foreclosures” and “School of Hard Financial Knocks” both Green...
Two projects I worked on recently for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting were finalists for SPJ Green Eyeshade Awards for digital media presentation. For “Florida and Foreclosures” and...
View Article“Florida and Foreclosures” wins second place for multimedia presentation in...
A project dubbed “Florida and Foreclosures,” for which I produced numerous interactive maps outlining foreclosure data by ZIP code and county, won second place for multimedia presentation in a Florida...
View ArticleMy 40-year data dive: Investigating Memphis’ financial mess
The first installment of Marc Perrusquia’s and my investigation into the mess that is Memphis’ city finances dropped today. Part of the work I did for this investigation was was build a database of...
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