What is a Data Desk?

By Ben Welsh • September 29, 2017 • CSUN's DataJam in Northridge

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WHAT IS A
DATA DESK?
A brief tutorial

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My name is Ben
 I sometimes go by @palewire

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All my slides are belong to
lat.ms/whoisdatadesk

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I work at @latimes in #GUNDO

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Our team is called the Data Desk
       We turn databases into news

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We write in code

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Including English

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Rosanna Xia
@rosannaxia

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-hollister-ranch-public-access-20181005-htmlst

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Steve Lopez
@LATstevelopez

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Act

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https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/src/parcels.ipynb

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https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/src/download.ipynb

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https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/hollister-ranch-analysis/blob/master/notebook.ipynb

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http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-hollister-taxes-20181020-story.html

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https://github.com/datadesk/notebooks

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Andy Roberson
@andyroberson22

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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-sp-lakers-roster/

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Ryan Menezes
@ryanvmenezes

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https://beta.observablehq.com/@ryanvmenezes/nba-player-hex-calcs

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We turn news into databases

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Maloy Moore
@maloym

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http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/daniel-r-parker/

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http://homicide.latimes.com/

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Nicole Santa Cruz
@nicolesantacruz

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Iris Lee
@irisslee

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http://homicide.latimes.com/post/bijan-michael-shoushtari/

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http://homicide.latimes.com/post/bijan-michael-shoushtari/

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http://homicide.latimes.com/post/autumn-johnson/

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http://homicide.latimes.com/post/michael-jackson/

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http://homicide.latimes.com/post/michael-jackson/

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https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/datadesk/street-racing-analysis/blob/master/notebook.ipynb

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We turn news into software

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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-primary-election-results-2018/

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https://python-elections.readthedocs.io

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https://elex.readthedocs.io/

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http://rrcc.co.la.ca.us/elect/downrslt.html-ssi

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Anthony Pesce
@anthonyjpesce

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https://github.com/datadesk/la-election-night

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https://github.com/datadesk/packages

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And vice versa

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http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/

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http://www.californiacivicdata.org/

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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-governor-2018-money/

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http://calaccess.californiacivicdata.org/downloads/latest/

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Ryan Menezes
@ryanvmenezes

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Maloy Moore
@maloym

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Seema Mehta
@LATseema

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-newsom-cannabis-20170727-story.html

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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-governor-2018-money/

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-antonio-villaraigosa-charter-school-money-governor-20180514-story.html

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governors-race-independent-expenditures-20180527-story.html

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http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/

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PLUS

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BOTS

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TOOLS

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TOYS

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THE
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Follow us
www.latimes.com

@LATdatadesk


github.com/datadesk

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All my slides are belong to
lat.ms/whoisdatadesk

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