Notes from Pew’s Census 2010 Workshop

The Pew Research Center’s Census 2010 workshop Jan. 21 featured two panels to help journalists and analysts prep for the decennial count of America and the data dump to follow. Two of my USA TODAY colleagues and I sat in. Paul Overberg, a fellow database editor, led one of the panels.
Pew staff recorded the sessions [...]

School Lunch series gets CW mention

USA TODAY’s series on school lunch quality, “Trouble on the Tray,” is included in a roundup of noteworthy investigative projects from 2009 by the non-profit investigative reporting team at California Watch. The stories were reported and written by Blake Morrison, Peter Eisler and Elizabeth Weise with data analysis by yours truly.
Also mentioned: The Washington Post’s [...]

Take my WordPress theme — again

Edit, edit and re-edit, I always say. I decided to dig deeper into my site’s CSS to come up with a new color scheme, one that’s more like the inside of a coffee shop than the grayish drone I had before. I also made changes to styles for the sidebar, comments and other items.
That’s the [...]

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