jacobharr.is

Résumé

https://jacobharr.is/resume

Email

mail@jacobharr.is

Location

Takoma Park, MD

Bluesky

@jacobharr.is

Signal

jacobharris.28

Notable Projects

2007-2014
  • @nytimes on Twitter
2007-2015
  • Data Journalism
2007-2025
  • Open Source Projects
2008-2014
  • The New York Times Election Loader
2010-2011
  • Wikileaks War Logs
2012-2017
  • Times Haiku
2015-2024
  • Sky Gradients
2015-2025
  • Civic Technology
2025
  • DOGE Track

Personal

2015
  • Leaving the New York Times
2016
  • How the Times Did Election Results 100 Years Ago
2021
  • Bad Metrics For Agile Development
2025
  • A Civic Tech Bookshelf
  • Visualizing the Human Toll of COVID-19
  • An AI-Fueled Bureaucratic Nightmare
  • The Assault on Oversight in the Executive Branch

Published

2007
  • The Right Kind of Stupid
2010
  • How Often Is the Times Tweeted?
  • Using Varnish So News Doesn’t Break Your Server
2011
  • Word Clouds Considered Harmful
2012
  • The New York Times’ Election Loader
2013
  • How the Data Sausage Gets Made
  • And Remember, This Is for Posterity
  • The Times Regrets the Error
2014
  • Bots With Thoughts
  • Distrust Your Data
  • Prediction for 2015 - A Wave of P.R. Data
2015
  • Connecting with the Dots
  • Consider the Boolean
  • Thank You, Electionbot
  • Why Is It So Hard to Make Great Food Infographics?
2016
  • Why I Like to Instagram the Sky
  • Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery