Al Shaw

@A_L

developer / designer / reporter at ProPublica • 'er • PGP:

Brooklyn, NY
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Joined August 2007
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    Jan 27

    When you buy fake followers, they leave fingerprints, as discovered. We illustrated it by analysing celebrity chef Michael Symon, who bought at least 600,000 followers.

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    Jan 26

    It sure looks like Tronc is secretly blowing a bunch of money to hire non-union editors and reporters to do the job that they already pay us, the newly unionized L.A. Times, to do. We have a desk that does this. It's run by a Pulitzer winner. I'm on it.

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  3. Jan 26

    Commas on Cogs

    Want a custom-made, high quality, csv-themed water bottle for cycling and/or other activities? Sign up to be informed:
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    Jan 25

    Fun reporting detail: I used NYT's open source congress facial recognition app "Who The Hill" (thanks , ) while reporting this story

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    Jan 25

    NEW: A senior Red Cross executive was found to have harassed a subordinate and was accused of raping another. The Red Cross forced him out — then helped him land a job at Save the Children. From me and :

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    Jan 24

    Harvey hit Texas 5 months ago breaking rainfall records. Now, much of the state is in drought

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  7. Jan 24

    This. This. This. If you keep infrared images red in fire maps, readers will think red is the fire or burned area, when it's actually the opposite. We did the same false green in this project:

    I also want to mention that I initially built this project using traditional false-color infrared imagery that looks like this. It was my very creative and colleagues who said "why not make it green"? It's unorthodox, but it works so much better.
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    Jan 23

    If you go to right now, you will see three.js running on the homepage.

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  9. Jan 22

    RIP Sunshine Cinema. Opened in 1909 to Yiddish vaudeville shows. Will be demolished to become another LES glass box.

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  10. Jan 22

    ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger is up \o/

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    Jan 19

    My (informal) tally of the newsroom union vote: Yeas: 247 Nays: 45 Appears we have a union paper, folks.

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  12. Jan 19

    Two insane stats from FixNYC report. * NYPD issues 10x more parking tickets than moving violations. Only 1M in 2016 * NYPD only handed out 2544 tickets for blocking the box in 2016.

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    Jan 19

    I finally started listening to Slow Burn, Slate’s podcast on Watergate, and it’s astonishing. It begins with Martha Mitchell, the attorney general’s wife, being held against her will in a California hotel room, and sedated, because she knows too much.

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    Jan 19

    Support from the governor is the one indispensable ingredient in getting a congestion pricing plan through Albany, and for the first time in ages, that support is in place.

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    Jan 18

    I'm so thrilled to announce that this year at , is going to be taking over as your ⚡️ lightning talks ⚡️ organizer and emcee! 1/?

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  16. Jan 18

    Tim Cook, today:  “We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country." No, Tim. If you felt responsibility, you'd pay taxes, not secretly stash billions on Isle of Jersey and wait to be rewarded for it.

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    Jan 17

    Here’s our talk, which was weirdly both harrowing and funny. Also: Keira on the reality of 2018 freelance economics

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  18. Jan 17

    So I guess we're all seeing how many words we can come up with in 30 seconds and identifying camels so 2018 is going great.

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    Jan 17

    Hi Congress nerds! We've been tinkering with ways of describing what lawmakers are saying about a certain topic like DACA. Here's what came up with: Take a look and tell us what you like/don't!

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    Jan 17

    BOOM! Investigators probing the 2016 election are examining newly uncovered Russian transactions, including ones by former Ambassador Kislyak 10 days after the election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal 5 days after the inauguration.

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