Tag: Covering

Being a data scientist demands expertise in plenty of areas. You need to be good at using appropriate tools, like Pandas, NumPy, Sklearn, etc. These are indispensable to the development life cycle of many data-driven projects, making them essential skills to begin/maintain a career in data scienc...

I’m posting this essay, which I wrote right after the 2016 election results, because I’ve begun to speak more openly about how constrained I was in covering racial resentment and white nationalism during my time at FiveThirtyEight. On October 2, 2015, I wrote a very factual and, in my mi...

I’ve had friends die from overdose. They were good people who wanted a better life. They shouldn’t be gone and it’s a damn shame they are. Unfortunately, my experience is not uncommon. In the U.S., the heart-breaking truth is likely that your life or the life of someone you love...