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Nael Shiab

@naelshiab.bsky.social

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Senior data producer, CBC/Radio-Canada. Behind https://github.com/nshiab/simple-data-analysis and https://code-like-a-journalist.com/. More on https://naelshiab.com/.

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jan 7

Exciting news! 🎉 I’m pressing pause on my work at CBC News for the next three months to focus on a passion project: www.code-like-a-journalist.com.

It’s a free, open-source online course designed to teach data analysis and visualization using TypeScript. 🚀

Stay tuned!

Code Like a Journalist

A free online data analysis and data visualization course using TypeScript by computational journalist Nael Shiab.

www.code-like-a-journalist.com

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for the mention in your newsletter, @observablehq.com!

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 12

Happy to see @nodejs.org! But it would be wonderful to add @deno.land as well! 🦆

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 8

Recoding parts of my TypeScript libraries using generics and function overloads. It's beautiful. 🥹

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here's the link.
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

How Canada’s imports and exports have changed since Trump | CBC News

CBC News tracks how trade between Canada and other countries has changed since Donald Trump came back to power.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 4

We have just updated our international trade tracker with the latest numbers from July. See all imports and exports broken down by country, province, and product!

Link below!

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here's the link.
observablehq.com/@nshiab/math...

Math for journalists

This interactive notebook aims to help journalists understand math concepts often used in news stories. Questions? Comments? Reach out: [email protected]. Thank you to Arthur Charpentier, professor in...

observablehq.com

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Sep 2

My most popular interactive @observablehq.com notebook, Math for Journalists, just got a fresh update! 🧑‍🎓

👉 Sample size and confidence: I explain how sample sizes work, like in a survey.
👉 Tests for statistical significance: I break down what "statistically significant" means.

Link in comments! 👇

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Aug 20

What an amazing dataset!

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here's the link.
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

How Canada’s imports and exports have changed since Trump | CBC News

CBC News tracks how trade between Canada and other countries has changed since Donald Trump came back to power.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Aug 20

New project is live! We're now tracking all products coming in and out of Canada 🇨🇦. See how international trade is rapidly shifting, with breakdowns by country, province, and product 🚗🥦🛢️.

Link in the comments! 👇

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Amazing work by @maxxen.bsky.social and the @duckdb.org team. I've been using the spatial extension for a while now for my geospatial analyses, and it's wonderful to see it getting better and faster.

duckdb.org/2025/08/08/s...

Spatial Joins in DuckDB

DuckDB v1.3.0 significantly improved the scalability of geospatial joins with a dedicated SPATIAL_JOIN operator.

duckdb.org

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jul 9

Will you be the 300th person to fall in love with this amazing library? 😏

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jul 2

I asked Gemini-CLI to fix mistakes and add examples to the documentation of the open-source library journalism. It updated 58 files and did a pretty good job in half an hour. I used the free tier, but the @simonwillison.net LLM pricing calculator estimated the cost at $6 USD! Very impressed. 😶

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jul 2

Very interesting. Thanks @jensvb.bsky.social !

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jul 2

Last week, we published our interactive project on climate matches. I published my detailed methodology on how we wrangled the data. Here's the link, with a shout-out to @freakonometrics.bsky.social who helped me with the statistical approach! 🧑‍🏫

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newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Maybe www.code-like-a-journalist.com will be of interest for you. :)

Codez comme un journaliste

Un cours gratuit sur l'analyse et la visualisation de données avec TypeScript par le journaliste computationnel Nael Shiab.

www.code-like-a-journalist.com

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Coded in Svelte! Maps done with Observable plot!

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Here's the link. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

See what summer in your city could feel like by the end of the century | CBC News

Compare your city's future summers to today's climate in other North American communities.

newsinteractives.cbc.ca

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 26

New project! I've always felt climate projections were a bit too abstract. To make them more concrete, I identified North American cities that already experience the projected temperature and precipitation of Canadian cities. And the result is... 😳

Link in the comments! 👇

#dataviz #climate

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Over 100 heat records could be broken today in Ontario and Quebec. 🫠

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 16

So nice of you! Feel free to ping me if you are stuck on anything! :)

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thank you @datawrapper.de for mentioning our Climate Dashboard! 🤩

Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 10

Terrible air quality in Alberta and Saskatchewan right now. 😷

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Nael Shiab @naelshiab.bsky.social · Jun 6

No, just a problem with it right now. Working on a fix. 😢