thesethings (andy) // @thesethings
portland, oregon
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What a special time for you! My friend Selena is teaching an online PostgreSQL class with CodeLesson.
It starts soonish, March 7th.
Lucky for you, it's not sold out yet. You can still learn PostgreSQL from not just a contributor to the project, but a gifted, fun teacher.
But who am I to pressure you? It's not like working with data is important or topical right now.
J/K.
DO IT.
From the Pulitzer rule changes announcement:
entries may use any available journalistic tool, including text reporting, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or any combination of those formats.
Especially cool about the databases part. (We know what they meant :D.)
It's been over five years since Adrian Holovaty's awesome chicagocrime.org. Since then, everyblock.com happened, (not to mention a straight up competitive rivalry among city mayors to open/ make available more civic data.)
Sidebar: was just having a conversation about programming not being an occupational specialty, but increasingly part of general literacy. Like say, for journalists.
