Dan Nguyen
Dan Nguyen was a news application developer at ProPublica.
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Dan Nguyen was a news application developer at ProPublica. He was lead developer on several of ProPublica’s most complex news applications, including the Bailout Tracker and (Stimulus) Recovery Tracker.
For the “Dollars for Docs” project, Nguyen developed software to collect the drug company payment records and cross-referenced them against physician names in federal and state databases. He also developed the publicly searchable database for the payment records and wrote a series of guides to teach his data-gathering techniques to other journalists and researchers.
Previously, Dan worked as a reporter, web developer and multimedia producer for the Sacramento Bee and sacbee.com. His work on multimedia projects won awards from Editor and Publisher and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Chapter 5: Getting Text Out of an Image-Only PDF
Dollars for Docs Data Guide: A tutorial on converting images of tabular data to actual text for a spreadsheet.
by Dan Nguyen,
Dollars for Docs Payments Approach $300 Million
ProPublica has added another $13 million in payments to our Dollars for Docs database of drug-company spending on doctors and other health professionals. That brings the total to nearly $295 million.
by Charles Ornstein, Dan Nguyen and Tracy Weber,
Interactive: Which Banks Got Emergency Loans from the Fed During the Financial Meltdown?
Wednesday the Federal Reserve released data on more than 21,000 loans and other deals it made through a dozen emergency programs created during the financial crisis. We've combined the Fed’s three programs that loaned directly to banks and other financial firms with the goal of getting them to start lending again.
by Dan Nguyen and Karen Weise,
Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials
Hundreds of doctors paid by pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs have been accused of professional misconduct, were disciplined by state boards or lacked credentials as researchers or specialists, ProPublica has found. We compiled data from seven companies, covering $257.8 million in payouts since 2009 for speaking, consulting and other duties
by Charles Ornstein, Dan Nguyen and Tracy Weber,
A Busy Summer Week at ProPublica
A review of the investigative reports ProPublica published the week of Aug. 23, 2010.
by Dan Nguyen,
A Busy Summer Week at ProPublica
A review of the investigative reports ProPublica published the week of Aug. 23, 2010.
by Dan Nguyen,
BP Claims Tracker
Follow the damage claims from the Gulf Oil Spill paid by HP.
by Sasha Chavkin and Dan Nguyen,
Bailout Scorecard
Our frequently updated database tracks every dollar and every bailout recipient. Check out our scorecard to see where the spending stands.
by Dan Nguyen,
"What Health Care Reform Means" Stories
Using results from a questionnaire we did with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, we examined how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage situations.
by Dan Nguyen,