Christine Zhang
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Christine Zhang
@christinezhang
@nytgraphics | previously @ftdata @baltsundata @BrookingsGlobal @datagraphics | forever a friendly neighborhood data reporter 🕸
Joined May 2009
- for Valentine’s Day please send some of your love to the people of Wuhan including my grandparents who are 92 (grandmother) & 93 (grandfather). it’s been very hard. but they’re OK & staying positive. #coronavirus #wuhan ♥️
- Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC. @wolfblitzer
- #plotswithchristine took a bit longer this week: places Anthony Bourdain visited on his shows "If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move....walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody" @PartsUnknownCNN data+code github.com/underthecurve/…
- ⚡️NEWS: I am joining @nytgraphics as a Visual Editing Resident, starting Feb 7. Excited for this chance to learn about visual editing & help spearhead visual & graphics-centered stories📊 💔Farewell to my @ftdata @FinancialTimes colleagues whose friendship has meant so much...We're proud to announce the three newest members of our Editing Residency: @stasiasayshey, @aodhanbeirne and @christinezhang nytco.com/press/introduc…
- happysad news on a sunny Friday: it’s my last day @baltsundata. Monday I’ll start a yearlong position covering the presidential election for @FinancialTimes as a data journalist 💔 to leave The Sun & Baltimore. but thrilled to work @ftdata, a team I have long admired from afar⚡️
- Today’s @nytimes features a chart *by yours truly*, about the pandemic’s effect on sales for some of the most well-known Broadway shows 🎭 🧵soon 🙏🏽 @a_symonds @aliciadesantis @billmarshnyt @coopnytimes @IanTrontz Story: @MichaelPaulson @HernandezJavier nyti.ms/3KcKKM7
- "Complaining about data preparation is the same as being a farmer and complaining about having to do anything but harvesting and please have somebody else deal with the pesky watering, fertilizing, weeding, etc." 🙌🏾 to all my fellow #datajanitors ⚡️⚡️⚡️
- Replying to @christinezhang1/ there's a lot of talk abt Trump/Biden betting odds being at 50:50, but here's a chart via @martinstabe showing in 2016, betting mkts were confident Clinton would win. in surveys more ppl including Trump voters also said they thought Clinton would win ft.com/content/3c9487…
- life updates, in lieu of #plotswithchristine 1. Monday I start @baltimoresun, where I’ll be pursuing my #datajournalism dreams🌞🗞🤓 2. Today was my last day @twosigma. So grateful I got to work w/my data heroes @tsdataclinic! 3. Tomorrow=@HamiltonMusical—poetic goodbye to nyc
- check out today’s @baltimoresun for a special section on Lamar Jackson, feat. some #dataviz from yours truly* & Tracie Rawson *thx @jonas_shaffer @StatsbyLopez @cmcampbell6 @Neil_Paine for enduring my onslaught of football Qs + @jon_bois for his 📈of passer rating v rushing yds
- HOW DID AMERICANS VOTE/SHIFT FROM 2016? It's tempting to just compare 2020 exit polls to 16's to unpack voting patterns, but that's problematic. Our @FT story explains why & uses exits AND other sources to paint a preliminary picture of trends: (THREAD)
- POLLS EXPLAINER: it's natural to want to compare 2020 election polls to 2016's, especially in swing states, but here's why that might not be such a good idea. My story in the @FT today reviews the key differences: (THREAD)
