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Brian Abelson

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Brian’s work on Source

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  1. Mockingjay

Projects

  1. Mockingjay: A Smarter Repeater
  2. Finding Evidence of Climate Change in a Billion Rows of Data
  3. Introducing Treasury.IO
  4. How Promotion Affects Pageviews on the New York Times Website

Articles by Brian

  1. Finding Evidence of Climate Change in a Billion Rows of Data

    How we made Engima’s Climate Change Map

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    Seeking to contribute to the climate change conversation, the team at Enigma started to brainstorm ways we could produce a data-driven story on how climate change has played out in the United States. Browsing through NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, we discovered the Global Historical Climatology Network which collects, aggregates, and standardizes daily weather information from more than 90,000 weather stations, dating as far back as 1800. While we come across many incredible public datasets in our work at Enigma, this one immediately stood out for its remarkable combination of geographic granularity and temporal breadth

  2. How Promotion Affects Pageviews on the New York Times Website

    OpenNews Fellow Brian Abelson breaks down metrics research conducted at the NYT

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    2013 OpenNews fellow Brian Abelson has been conducting research on pageviews as a metric, and on the relationship between pageviews and promotion at the New York Times during his fellowship there. This article is cross-posted from his blog.

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