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.
Bailout Recipients
What companies have gotten money in the federal bailout?
by Paul Kiel and Dan Nguyen,
School Construction Funding Cuts in the Stimulus Bill
What school construction spending was excluded from the Senate stimulus bill?
by Jennifer LaFleur and Dan Nguyen,
The Missing Memos
Which Bush administration memos on detentions, interrogations and warrantless wiretapping are secret, and which are public?
by Dan Nguyen and Christopher Weaver,