Jeremy B. Merrill is...
- a journalist who writes things—mostly code, but also words —at ProPublica
- an occasional chef who likes to pickle, bake and make granola
- a mediocre but avid board game and frisbee player
- a resident of Atlanta, Ga.
- someone who loves to watch thunderstorms
clipfile: the work he's most proud of
all clips and blogposts:
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A Mysterious Facebook Group Is Using Bernie Sanders’ Image to Urge Democrats to Vote for the Green Party
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How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules
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Groups Mask Partisan Attacks Behind Neutral-Sounding Names in Facebook Ads
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Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men
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Besieged Facebook Says New Ad Limits Aren’t Response to Lawsuits
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Facebook Political Ad Collector — Homepage Redesign
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Facebook's New Screening System Flags the Wrong Ads as Political
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What Facebook's New Political Ad System Misses
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How To Wrestle Your Data from Cambridge Analytica, Silicon Valley and Data Brokers
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What's Congress Talking About?
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Facebook Political Ad Collector
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Lobbying Database
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Chamber of Secrets: Teaching a Machine What Congress Cares About
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Rails Problems: When Array and ActiveRecord::Relation Behave Very Differently
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Chamber of Secrets: Teaching a Machine What Congress Cares About
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Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We Analyzed the Kasowitz Emails
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As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating
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The Mystery of Street Signs in Buildings
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Why Facebook Showed You That Ad for the Candidate You Hate
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Campaign Social Media Databases and Tools
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Political Ad Tracker: Crowdsourced Collection of Facebook Political Ads
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Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
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Montreal Played Role in Plan to Get Donald Trump’s Plane Flying Again
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Hillary, Donald and Bernie Don’t Catch On as Baby Names
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Natural Language Generation + Statistics = A Funny Bogus Pundit Bot
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After Legal Maneuver, Donald Trump’s Jet Is Cleared to Fly
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Michael Bloomberg Moved His Website as Speculation About Intentions Grew
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On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate
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That Plane Overhead: Starring Our Friends SDR, ADS-B, I2C and KLGA
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How Donald Trump Talks
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Marco Rubio’s Use of Party Credit Card Reinforces a Picture of Messy Finances
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Men Dominate in Political Giving; Hillary Clinton’s Donors Are an Exception
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Blame Uber for Congestion in Manhattan? Not So Fast
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When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
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Honors for Confederates, for Thousands of Miles
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The Northeast Corridor's Curviest Stretches, and Amtrak's Plans for Safety and Speed
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Where The Streets Apparently Had No Name
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A Search Tool for Emails, Websites or... Anything
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Tabula pre-alpha
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The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See From the Midterm Elections*
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One-Third of Top Websites Restrict Customers' Right to Sue
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Never Miss the Bus with Big Apple Serial Bus—Ambient Bus Notifications for Raspberry Pi
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The Upshot site
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How the Labor Department Has Let Companies Off the Hook for Unpaid Internships
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How To Suppress Java Logging in JRuby
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Upton: A Web-Scraping Framework
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Unpaid Interns Win Major Ruling in ‘Black Swan’ Case — Now What?
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Free The Files: Massively-Crowdsourced Transcriptions
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Dollars for Docs: Data Update
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Bailout Uploader
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Through Technology, Man Achieves Victory Over Nature; or, How To Bake Better Biscuits
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Heart of Nerd Darkness: Why Updating Dollars for Docs Was So Difficult
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I Built a Unity Anti-Theft Alarm
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Cooking & Looking: Infused Liqueurs
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/etc/cron.hourly, Annotated
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Imago: a NYT web app for curating photos and building slideshows
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Noms: Peanut Butter, Sriracha, Avocado and Grilled Tofu Sandwich
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I built a Unity HDAPS indicator
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CMC Falsely Reported More Than Just SATs, Report Shows
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Unions, Rep. Chu, and Community Rally For Workers for Justice
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State of CMC: Gann Discusses SAT Scandal and Master Plan
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Still Working For Justice
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Investigating Campus Safety’s Use of Pepper Spray
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Wealth and Salaries at the Claremont Colleges
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Visualizing the SAT Scandal
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State of the Union Bingo
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SAT Scandal Involved Systematic Score Manipulation
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President Pamela Gann Speaks About SAT Scandal
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Kiplinger Drops CMC from “Best Value” Rankings
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In SAT Score Scandal, CMC Admissions Dean Richard Vos Resigns
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Hello world!
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15 Arrested in Protest of Pomona Dining Hall Firings
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UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident: Could it Happen in Claremont?
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#ONA11 Buzzword Bingo
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How Does ASCMC Spend Your Money?
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OccupyLA: Diverse, but Coherent
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Integrating Open Source Into the Newsroom
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CampSec Explains “Not a Drill” Evacuation Order
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ASCMC Passes Nine Further Constitutional Amendments
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ASCMC Senate Approves Three Amendments, Rejects One
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Study Abroad: Is It Worth Leaving Campus?
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ASCMC to Vote on Constitution Fixes
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7 Reasons You Should Be Reading Your Campus Paper
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Against High Hurdles, Constitutional Amendment To Cut ASCMC President’s Pay Fails — For Now
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Instant Runoff Voting’s National Debut in North Carolina
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State of the Discourse: Obama’s Critics Are (Literally) Robots!
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Dry Week Changes Meet Praise, Apathy
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Who Was To Blame For the TNC Cancellation: ASCMC or DoS?
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I’ve Never Paid Rent – Does Rising Tuition Lead to “Prolonged Adolescence?”
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What Does President Obama Think About the Scripps Pool or Kravis Center?
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No Sophomore Car Ban in “Near Future”
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Workers for Justice Boycott Pomona Dining Halls
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Why Didn’t the Student Cross the Road?
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Here Comes the Pride?
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Dollars and Sense: Thoughts on Citizens United
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The Kwanzaa Incident: Examination Through a Leftist Lens
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Swine Flu Hogs Campus Spotlight