New engagement jobs

Welcome back, hacks and hackers! If you're interested in the burgeoning area of engagement reporting, there is a long list of jobs currently open:

Happening this week:

Worth a read:

  • As the pandemic starts easing up in some places around the world, GIJN gives a list of five post-pandemic data story ideas to tackle in your community.
  • SmartNews - a news aggregation app valued at over $2 billion that started in Japan and grew worldwide - is known for its recommendation algorithm and product design that clearly show the partisan leanings of news sources when showing articles.
  • Creating virtual environments in Python makes it easier to manage dependencies needed for certain projects, and this guide from Towards Data Science shows how to use virtualenvwrapper - a library designed to be able to better organize several virtual environments.

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