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    - title: Election results
      img: /static/img/elex3.jpg
      description: Publishing election results is a full stack process. On the back end, I write software to download, parse, and transform raw results from the Associated Press and <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/datadesk/la-election-night">County of Los Angeles</a>. On the front end, I build maps and charts to visualize the results in real time. I also build live-updating widgets for the homescreen of latimes.com.
      work:
      - name: Results from the 2018 midterm elections
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-na-us-general-election-results-2018/
      - name: How your neighborhood voted in the razor-thin L.A. County sheriff's race
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-sheriff-election-map-2018/
      - name: Results from California’s primary election
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-primary-election-results-2018/
      - name: L.A. County split on governor. How did your neighborhood vote?
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-primary-la-precincts-2018/
      - name: U.S. 2016 election results
        url: http://graphics.latimes.com/la-na-pol-2016-election-results-national/
      - name: How the race to the nomination was won
        url: http://graphics.latimes.com/2016-election-delegates/
      - name: Results from the Massachusetts primary
        url: http://graphics.latimes.com/election-2016-massachusetts-results/

    - title: Campaign finance
      img: /static/img/camp-fi.jpg
      description: Campaign finance records can come from the Federal Election Commission, the California Secretary of State, Los Angeles City, Los Angeles County and more! I write software to download and clean campaign finance records in bulk &mdash; then I write more code to clean up business names and occupations, classify the contributions into sectors, and group individual donors.
      work:
      - name: Who gives money to Bernie Sanders?
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-sanders-donors/
      - name: After wasting millions of dollars, California GOP donors close their checkbooks to presidential candidates
        url: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-0424-california-gop-donors-20160423-story.html
      - name: In Democratic California, which 2016 candidates get the most money?
        url: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-money-california-20150916-story.html
      - name: Who are the millionaires bankrolling the 2016 presidential race?
        url: http://graphics.latimes.com/2016-election-big-donors/

    - title: Recipes & restaurants
      img: /static/img/food.jpg
      description: I <a href="http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2013/12/natural-language-processing-in-the-kitchen/">wrote software</a> to dive into the L.A. Times archives and pull out structured recipe data. Then, I built the California Cookbook recipes database from back end to front end.
      work:
      - name: 101 Restaurants We Love
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fo-101-restaurants-we-love/
      - name: Map &mdash; 101 Restaurants We Love
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fo-101-restaurants-we-love-map/
      - name: California Cookbook & recipes database
        url: https://recipes.latimes.com/

    - title: Social engagement
      img: /static/img/neighborhoods.jpg
      description: "These projects often start with a question from a colleague: Can we make a Mad Libs for L.A. neighborhoods? How are our readers feeling about the political environment? After some brainstorming, my team finds a creative way to connect with our readers."
      work:
      - name: Build your own California
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-build-your-own-california/
      - name: How do you feel about America right now? Make your own sign.
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/draw-your-sign/
      - name: The 2nd Amendment is 145 characters. How would you rewrite it?
        url: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-what-should-the-second-amendment-say/
      - name: Los Feliz, define your neighborhood
        url: http://ilivehere.latimes.com/los-feliz/
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