
Alexandra Kanik
@act_rational
Data Visualization Editor, @HoustonChron and @ExpressNews. Previously @CityMonitorAI @WFPLNews @kentuckycir @OVReSRC @PublicSourcePA
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http://akanik.com 06-02-2010 20:15:11
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Do you ever look to the curb and wonder where the garbage or recycling truck is? I did a deep dive to try to explain why Solid Waste often is scrambling to catch up. w/ Marie D. De Jesús 🇵🇷 & Alexandra Kanik: houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…





New from Alejandro Serrano and me: The wave of book reviews and removals that swept across Texas in the last year was driven more by politicians than parents, a Houston Chronicle analysis found. Story w/ database of 2,080 book reviews, challenges and bans: houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…







.Wesley Ratko has made the impenetrable understandable. Terrific explainer on Texas property tax bills, what they mean, who's getting paid, etc. Illo by the inimitable .. Orchestrated by Alexandra Kanik expressnews.com/news/article/b…




I realized that I've talked about the class I taught with Alexandra Kanik, but I never posted the slides or repo! If you want to learn how to use PostgreSQL + PostGIS or Pandas + Geopandas to make geographic crosswalks with Census data, I gotchu: bit.ly/make-mapping-b… (slides)

Inland Northwest journalists: please join us tomorrow for a free spreadsheet training with Alexandra Kanik and don’t forget your laptops. We’ll look at ways to work with data in Google sheets and brainstorm ideas for record requests
