Anthony DeBarros

Journalist and coder working on data-driven news apps.
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Selected articles from my blog:
Python:

Get JSON from Excel using Python, xlrd 02.05.2013 | 0 c

Python: Pull Twitter, Facebook User Data 08.26.2012 | 0 c

Catch the Cat: A Simple Python Game 08.19.2012 | 0 c

12 Tangents Later, I Publish a Django Site 03.18.2012 | 3 c

Generate JSON From SQL Using Python 03.11.2012 | 37 c

Scraping CDC flu data with Python 10.21.2011 | 0 c

Setting up Python in Windows 7 10.15.2011 | 76 c

csvkit: A Swiss Army Knife for Comma-Delimited Files 09.11.2011 | 0 c

SQL:

Generate JSON From SQL Using Python 03.11.2012 | 37 c

Calculating Medians With SQL 07.25.2010 | 2 c

Essential SQL Queries (To Me, At Least) 03.11.2010 | 0 c

Journalism:

Ghost Factories: Behind the Project 05.24.2012 | 0 c

NICAR 2012: Words and Nerds 03.10.2012 | 0 c

And In Local News … Editor’s Acquitted 11.26.2011 | 0 c

A Price That Minimizes Risk 06.12.2011 | 0 c

Lessons From a Census Factory 04.02.2011 | 0 c

Free Software and APIs: NICAR 2011 slides 02.26.2011 | 0 c

Data Journalism and the Big Picture 11.26.2010 | 19 c

It’s Journalism, Yes. But Is It Art? 07.03.2010 | 1 c

Write Better: Seven Tips For Journalists 06.13.2010 | 1 c

The New Journalism Mosaic 05.31.2010 | 1 c

Save Journalism? It’s The Content, Kids 05.16.2010 | 2 c

IRE’s CAR Conferences: What I’ve Valued 02.21.2010 | 0 c

Spreading data journalism in the newsroom 02.06.2010 | 2 c

The danger of thinking like it’s 1985 11.23.2009 | 4 c

Data analysis:

Packing The Stands at Nationals Park 04.02.2013 | 0 c

Excel: Extract text with FIND and MID 10.09.2012 | 2 c

Which web browsers do journalists favor? 03.15.2011 | 2 c

Story hunting in birth, death data 09.07.2010 | 0 c

Sorting Data in Excel: Simple Analysis 05.12.2010 | 3 c

Mean vs. Median: A Beginner’s Guide 12.27.2009 | 2 c

26,500 school cafeterias uninspected 12.16.2009 | 0 c

When chickens stop laying eggs … 12.09.2009 | 0 c

Project: School lunch safety 12.02.2009 | 0 c

Bookshelf: Numbers in the Newsroom 11.14.2009 | 0 c

Project: NCAA football coach contracts 11.10.2009 | 0 c

Adjusting for inflation: A beginner’s guide 11.01.2009 | 2 c

Percent change: Know the formula 10.14.2009 | 6 c

Excel: Combine text and formulas in a cell 10.04.2009 | 1 c

Life:

College IT Dept. Problems, Circa 1986 06.03.2012 | 0 c

Again Towards The Analog 01.02.2012 | 4 c

My First Earthquake 08.27.2011 | 0 c

Persistence 04.13.2011 | 0 c

A Sense of September 09.06.2010 | 3 c

How I Spent My Summer Furcation 05.02.2010 | 7 c

You Can’t Afford to Stop Learning 04.02.2010 | 1 c

Minkoff, Data Delvers and Yours Truly 03.08.2010 | 0 c

Winter Road 12.27.2009 | 0 c

Teaching Little Miss Opie 11.26.2009 | 0 c