Charles Minshew
Senior Editor, Data Journalism
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Minshew is an award-winning data journalist and senior editor specializing in data-driven storytelling, graphics, and interactive maps, with over a decade of experience elevating newsroom reporting. He has led data services and training at Investigative Reporters and Editors and helped newsrooms from Top 25 TV stations to major newspapers produce watchdog journalism and usable data tools. His R-based workflows and interactive work contributed to a Denver Post Pulitzer for Breaking News and have appeared in outlets including the Orlando Sentinel, LA Times, and NPR. As a hands-on trainer and curriculum creator, he regularly teaches Excel, SQL, R, Tableau and QGIS to reporters and oversees academic research assistants building newsroom data resources. Now based in Atlanta as Senior Editor, Data Journalism at the AJC, he combines practical newsroom product sense with deep technical chops and a knack for turning messy public records into compelling, audience-facing narratives. Beyond bylines, he’s known for building reusable data tooling and training pipelines that leave newsrooms more self-sufficient.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Political Science, B.S., Political Science at Georgia Southern UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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305reached
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Github Skills (13)
geocoding7
geofencing6
javascript6
jquery6
geofence5
geodata5
projection5
react-leaflet3
leaflet2
maps1
machine-learning1
python1
planning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uncoast-unconf/ggcart
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Make it easy to include US territories and state insets in the Albers projection
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 day
territoriesprojection
OrlandoSentinel/sentinel-gis
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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