for Valentine’s Day please send some of your love to the people of Wuhan including my grandparents who are 92 (grandmother) & 93 (grandfather).
it’s been very hard. but they’re OK & staying positive.
#coronavirus#wuhan ♥️
#plotswithchristine took a bit longer this week: places Anthony Bourdain visited on his shows
"If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move....walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody" @PartsUnknownCNN
data+code github.com/underthecurve/…
⚡️NEWS: I am joining @nytgraphics as a Visual Editing Resident, starting Feb 7.
Excited for this chance to learn about visual editing & help spearhead visual & graphics-centered stories📊
💔Farewell to my @ftdata@FinancialTimes colleagues whose friendship has meant so much...
happysad news on a sunny Friday: it’s my last day @baltsundata. Monday I’ll start a yearlong position covering the presidential election for @FinancialTimes as a data journalist
💔 to leave The Sun & Baltimore. but thrilled to work @ftdata, a team I have long admired from afar⚡️
"Complaining about data preparation is the same as being a farmer and complaining about having to do anything but harvesting and please have somebody else deal with the pesky watering, fertilizing, weeding, etc." 🙌🏾 to all my fellow #datajanitors ⚡️⚡️⚡️
1/ there's a lot of talk abt Trump/Biden betting odds being at 50:50, but here's a chart via @martinstabe showing in 2016, betting mkts were confident Clinton would win. in surveys more ppl including Trump voters also said they thought Clinton would win ft.com/content/3c9487…
check out today’s @baltimoresun for a special section on Lamar Jackson, feat. some #dataviz from yours truly* & Tracie Rawson
*thx @jonas_shaffer@StatsbyLopez @cmcampbell6 @Neil_Paine for enduring my onslaught of football Qs + @jon_bois for his 📈of passer rating v rushing yds
HOW DID AMERICANS VOTE/SHIFT FROM 2016? It's tempting to just compare 2020 exit polls to 16's to unpack voting patterns, but that's problematic.
Our @FT story explains why & uses exits AND other sources to paint a preliminary picture of trends: (THREAD)
POLLS EXPLAINER: it's natural to want to compare 2020 election polls to 2016's, especially in swing states, but here's why that might not be such a good idea. My story in the @FT today reviews the key differences: (THREAD)