Michelle Minkoff

I spent the last week in New York getting acclimated to my new journalistic home -- The Associated Press. I am overwhelmed, exhausted, exhilarated, excited and oh-so-grateful to have landed there. How to describe it? I feel like we're leading a revolution, reminding me of a certain passage from Les Miserables: "Who will join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade, is there a world we long to see? When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes!" At the AP, moving toward that tomorrow is happening today Read More...

I've recently become very, very intimately acquainted with the advanced innards of Google Fusion Tables in a very unhealthy way. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. One of the coolest visualizations Fusion Tables (I'll say FT from this point forward) is capable of would be its Intensity Map option. Automatically pull in the shapes of various countries or states, match up a certain number (population, incidents of something, etc Read More...

I had the privilege of visiting Derek Willis' Digital Frameworks class last week -- a hallowed room that started my own data journalism journey. As most of you know, I'm unable to sit and merely observe (sorry, Derek!), so I ended up chiming in. One student explained that she was working on a Fusion Table project , but had too much data for one Fusion Table Read More...

As I sit here at PBS, the day before my last, full of a delicious ice cream cupcake courtesy of Christine Montgomery, who somehow turned my last staff meeting into a Michelle farewell party (embarrassed!), many emotions swirl through my head. On Monday, I'll be on 33rd Street in Manhattan, in a giant building with the initials "AP" on it Read More...