Justin Myers
Interactives Editor at Chicago Public Media
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Myers is an interactives editor and developer in Chicago with 14 years of experience blending journalism, data analysis, and newsroom tooling to turn complex stories into clear, engaging visuals. At Chicago Public Media he builds interactive graphics and automation that accelerate reporting workflows for the Sun-Times and WBEZ, supporting designers and developers across projects from daily interactives to longform features. His hands-on background includes back-end scraping work—contributing to the City-Bureau city-scrapers project by improving date/time parsing, status logic and schema consistency—which reflects a practical focus on reliable data pipelines for public-information projects. A University of Missouri-Columbia graduate, he pairs editorial judgment with engineering discipline to create tools that help newsrooms tell stories more quickly and accurately.
14 years of coding experience
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
scrape10
crawler10
scraper10
open-data10
scrapy10
webscraper10
webscraping10
python10
python-dateutil9
testing8
pytest8
csv6
javascript6
unicode6
gruntjs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
City-Bureau/city-scrapers
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Scrape, standardize and share public meetings from local government websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin focused on improving the functionality of the `chi_animal` spider, which scrapes data from a local government website. Their contributions included splitting date and time components in the data, updating the meeting status based on the date, adding more detail to the name and classification, updating the data schema, estimating end times, and adding standard documents. This work involved modifying Python code to parse and structure the scraped data according to a defined specification.
city-scraperspythonscrapyscrapestandardize
associatedpress/ipedals
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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