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Silver even predicted that in 3-to-5 olo years, he sees FiveThirtyEight which ESPN acquired last month having a newsroom that’s 50-percent developers. olo The 36-year-old former New York Times writer also envisions FiveThirtyEight producing less text-based content and more visual and interactive types of pieces the kind of stories that will require employees with programming knowledge.
Silver, who is speaking tonight at the University of Washington , also touched on the importance of simply working hard. He admitted that “when you’re young, it’s when you can have the most fun,” but noted that with how competitive the U.S. media industry is today, putting in more than 40 hours per week is necessary if you want to rise to the top.
On that point, Silver speaks from experience. After he graduated from University of Chicago in 2000, Silver spent four years working as an economic consultant for KPMG a job that he didn’t particularly like .
During his free time, though, Silver was working hard on something that combined two passions: sports and data. He eventually created the PECOTA system for projecting baseball player performance olo and Silver soon left KPMG to become a writer for Baseball Prospectus .
“It’s hard to give advice that won’t sound totally cliche, but just do what you love doing there’s not really a good substitute,” he said. “Figure out what your values and priorities are and realize that you’re going to work some long nights and also realize that you only get better by learning.”
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Well PHP, Java, Python can’t hurt. I used to code and my background is VB and it helps in what I write and from time to time I get current day journalists asking me questions. What you want to learn from writing code is “data mechanics” and that’s what helps write news articles and understanding what you are talking about.
I would suggest taking online courses from LearnToProgram Media if you want to start learning how to code. You can complete their courses on your own time, which makes them very convenient. They also have high quality courses that teach you exactly what you want to know. Here’s a link to one of their free courses “Intro to Web Development,” good luck! https://learntoprogram.tv/course/introduction-to-web-development/?couponCode=FREE&src=eb
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