Eric Blom

Sr. newsroom dev @NatGeo. Previously @protocol @sfchronicle @DailyRanger

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

Working on a project to evaluate sports teams and forecast games with Elo. Took a crack at the PWHL. The puck drops in only two days! https://t.co/ODF9C5Inl0

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

@owenthomas @ramonaterrier I’m so sorry Owen. One of my greatest professional achievements was being added to her route of desks in the SFC newsroom where she’d get treats.

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@abhinanda_b @latimes Nice photos!

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Update: It worked! It found a site in June that just opened up and we were able to book it

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations.
https://t.co/llCQsYDNXs

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

It runs on AWS Lambda, has a Github actions CI/CD pipeline and emails me every 6 hours with sites it fins. Probably overkill but fun to learn this stuff.

The code is open source but if you use it to score a site you gotta share it with me!

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

State park campsites on Minnesota's North Shore fill up fast. Like within a minute of reservations opening. I kept missing out, so I made a bot to check for cancellations.
https://t.co/llCQsYDNXs

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

@DTurnerMedia What are you gonna order?

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

I added server-side batch processing of SVG graphics to Nat Geo’s Vite build tool to make this project on the Battle of the Atlantic. I developed the story idea and gathered and analyzed the data too.
https://t.co/nCRi5LGuk9

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

I rebuilt the elections results data pipeline app for the San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst newspapers in Python and helped expand and redeploy it several times since

https://t.co/z0OJvmu6l8
https://t.co/WwGnXTpz5u

[Lucas Petrin 🧌 @FossilFracas]

@ejblom @shallotly @MonicaSerrano_ @mizfellenz Credit to @GaelleSeguillon for the lovely elephants as well! A pleasure to work on this story so extensively.

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

Lots of fun collaborating with @shallotly on the dev side and for maps and illustrations with @MonicaSerrano_ @FossilFracas and @mizfellenz

But wait! There's more elephants stories here https://t.co/14JcJNXE0B

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

How do elephants survive in rain forests, savanna and deserts? We've got you covered https://t.co/e67i4DoE8z

A little preview of the awesome graphics and videos here

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

All the maps are d3-powered svgs rendered server side!

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

Dug into some data about ships sunk in WWII for this story. See how the Battle of the Atlantic shifted across the ocean during the course of the war

https://t.co/l8zSoeV7ze

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

Fascinating data compiled by https://t.co/1YnWL5CQag at https://t.co/OabCrjZCrc

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

@jane_seidel Pretty sure all of the Midwest is in that lower left quadrant too. We'd love to have ya

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

$8 for this?

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This book also explains where I got my love of cycling and pickles and my inability to throw away food

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

I wrote a book! It’s an oral history of my grandpa. It started as a personal project but now is out in the world. My cousin worked on it with me

Available here https://t.co/6ZiP8Lcr5h

[Eric Blom @ejblom]

“Pake” (pah-cuh) is Frisian for “grandpa.” My pake lived through the Depression, survived the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, immigrated to the US and raised 10 kids with my grandma. Quite a life