Comment by defrost
14 hours ago
For any, like myself, wondering "Who is Ben Welsh" ?
Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City.
I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories.
I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards, databases and automated systems that benefit clients, inform readers, empower reporters and serve the public interest.
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Ben is one of my favorite people in the world of data journalism. He's the author of many excellent training courses in the field, including:
- https://github.com/palewire/first-python-notebook
- https://github.com/palewire/first-web-scraper
- https://github.com/palewire/first-graphics-app
(Submitted title was "Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive" - we've since changed it)
Cheers for the clarity, that'll help me look less weird wrt above comment to future historians of archived HN threads :-)
TBH I enjoyed looking up Ben and finding out what he's about and done in the past far more than I did just knowing there's a 538 archive on IA.
What do you think was perceived wrong with the old title?
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Can't believe Ben Welsh is not Welsh, and FiveThirtyEight has nothing to do with Wales
Don't click that link if you have any feelings of inadequacy about your achievements LOL