I'm editor-at-large at O'Reilly Media, writing about the tech industry and convening discussions about the future of technology. I also code in order to explore interesting questions, developing scripts to break apart datasets and build interactive illustrations.

Before I came to O'Reilly, I was data editor at Forbes, where I covered anything quantitative through long-form articles, infographics and interactive applications.

I also managed some of the internal data that goes into Forbes's big editorial efforts like the Forbes 400 and Best Places, and I've dabbled in content management systems as well, getting familiar with PHP and the WordPress API to help build Forbes's contributor platform during the summer and fall of 2010.

See my recent work for more.

In this evening’s data journalism workshop we’ll take a look at a couple of tools for mapping: we’ll have a presentation from Javier de la Torre, founder of Vizzuality, on CartoDB, and I’ll lead a brief walk-through that takes some of the data we looked at last week and turns it into a map with Google Fusion Tables and Google Maps.

Some links for tonight:

• CartoDB
• Google Refine (the software we used last week)
• New York State traffic fatalities dataset
• Fusion Tables

Here’s a sample map of the sort that I’ll build in tonight’s workshop: