People

Jacob Harris

Innovation Specialist at @18F, proud former troublemaker at @nytimes. Data scold. Personal account: @harrisj_self

Jacob Harris is a Senior Software Architect who works with a kickass team of fellow newsroom developers at the New York Times.

• The New York Times
• @harrisj

Code

• statement

Projects

• Thank You, Electionbot
• Connecting with the Dots
• Gender, Twitter, and the Value of Taking Things Apart
• SRCCON: How Not to Skew Data with Statistics
• Bots with Thoughts
• Watching the Results Change
• They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!
• The Perils of Polling Twitter
• Strongbox Reactions, Part II
• How the Data Sausage Gets Made
• The New York Times’ Election Results Loader

Articles by Jacob

• Thank You, Electionbot
• Consider the Boolean
• Connecting with the Dots
• Gender, Twitter, and the Value of Taking Things Apart
• Distrust Your Data
• Bots with Thoughts
• And Remember, this Is for Posterity
• Watching the Results Change
• The Times Regrets the Programmer Error
• They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!
• The Perils of Polling Twitter
• Strongbox Reactions, Part II
• How the Data Sausage Gets Made
• The New York Times’ Election Results Loader