Nigel Chiwaya

Data journalist, web dev. Not very active here right now.

[Nigel Chiwaya @seenigel]

If you're in college or grad school and interested in a career in data journalism, my team at @nbcnews is hiring an academic-year 2024 intern. Details here: https://t.co/StQgzyA6fr

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We have a full-time summer internship spot available on the NBC News Data Graphics team. Joe's got a good wrap of the details below. You can send resumes to me ([email protected]) or Joe.

DMs are open if you've got questions!

[Joe Murphy @JoeMurph]

INTERNSHIP
Join NBC News' Data / Graphics team full-time this summer and experience what it's like to work in a national news org. Remote friendly. (1/2)

Email resumes: [email protected]
Details: https://t.co/XwsP1Rc0LV
Our work: https://t.co/7kqg9Voxbu

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@AubernaLevy @katie_honan ❤️

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@trishanderton And twice on Fridays. Long may it reign.

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DNAinfo was a great website.

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@KeldyOrtiz Congrats!

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@no_such_zone Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉

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This story from @JefferiesDanica makes me want to only eat meat

[NBC News Graphics @NBCNewsGraphics]

Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows several counties across the country with higher than average glyphosate usage, and more than 55 million people live in counties with above-average glyphosate use. https://t.co/1DDuphDsWj

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I'm not the only person to try this either. Github is littered with the bones of folks who tried to bank transactions accessible. So many abandoned projects. https://t.co/m4zCKOczMY

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A year ago I started looking into ways to log my own bank transactions automatically. I figured "All these banks have apps. And a billion personal finance apps can log transactions. Surely these APIs are publicly available!"

Boy was I wrong.

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And when they talk about APIs, they refer them in like, magical terms. As if like every other modern industry hasn't had them for at least 6 years.

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@mutalenkonde The screen scraping is slowly dying out. JP Morgan just stopped it this week https://t.co/62zdnYHu6z

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I don't even know what my point is. I'm just mad after my latest brick wall. I don't understand why banks make this so hard. I'm my own data. I should be able to easily access it. I shouldn't have to be a vendor to get my own data.

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And oh my god, UK Open Banking. I saw those efforts early on and was like "Okay! Open banking is a thing! This is totally going to work."
LOL I was so wrong. https://t.co/pFsaMZufXb

[Stephen Miller @miller_stephen]

Why @UKOpenBanking is a model for giving people access to their own personal financial data

[Nigel Chiwaya @seenigel]

Come intern at @NBCNewsGraphics this spring! We write stories, we make charts, we make maps, we love JSON and spreadsheets and we'd love to work with you https://t.co/uRRL9TESIs