What we extravagantly spend on healthcare has become even more a pressing topic with the recent release of Medicare spending data – the most detailed […]
Preparing eggs and programming – danwin.com
As an egg fan, I loved this Times dining article about a “tasting expedition” of the high- and low-brow egg dishes in New York. As […]
MySQL (and SQLite) for Data Journalists – danwin.com
My first task since joining Stanford was to create the Public Affairs Data Journalism I, a required course for all students in the graduate program. […]
The Computer Science of Tomorrow, Today, and the Past – danwin.com
“The thing you are doing has likely been done before. And that might seem depressing, but I think it’s the most wonderful thing ever. Because […]
How to compile OpenCV 2.4.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 – danwin.com
For my upcoming Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere class at Stanford, I wanted my students to have access to OpenCV so that they could […]
Unix for Journalism – Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere – danwin.com
I’ve been too busy with teaching and other things to blog…most of my writing is currently being done for my class, Computational Methods in the […]
The big, ignored business of extorting undocumented migrants – danwin.com
I’ve been a long-time New Yorker subscriber but it’s been a long time since I’ve sat down with the print edition to read a story. […]
Goodbye WordPress; hello Jekyll and Markdown – danwin.com
WordPress is great software, but the fact that it takes many minutes to just publish a simple, HTML-error-ridden post has kept me from updating this […]
Soft-launching Stanford’s Computational Journalism Lab – danwin.com
Last week, my Stanford colleagues and I launched the website for the Computational Journalism Lab. It’s a soft-launch, as the lab isn’t a physical lab, […]