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Libby Seline
@libbyseline.bsky.social
it’s pop — not soda; data journalist/analyst; Now:📚🧠UChicago; Prior 📝📊: Flatwater Free Press; San Antonio Express-News, Lincoln Journal Star, NYT; UNL🌽21; http://seedisclaimer.com; she/her
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Hello, Bluesky! This account automatically posts updates when the Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets.

See the full tracker at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...
Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
www.hrecht.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Grad school reflection, travel update, project dump, and ultimately reflecting on my very minor identity crisis.

open.substack.com/pub/libbysel...
What makes a journalist?
As told from a current computer science/public policy student
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇
June 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I just followed you on Bluesky, it's likely thanks to this handy dandy lil tool.
November 15, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Nebraska! There's less than one month until the election. Let's get ready to vote!

With the help of excellent colleagues at the Flatwater Free Press, I put together a voter guide on Unicameral, Board of Regents and State Board of Education races.

Find it here: voterguide.flatwaterfreepress.org
2024 Nebraska Voter Guide - Nebraska Voter Guide
Information about the candidates and races for three key offices, along with judges and ballot measures, to help you fill out your ballot.
voterguide.flatwaterfreepress.org
October 7, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Best NICAR ever #NICAR24
March 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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For Vice veterans worried about being able to keep access to their stories or get clips, I've got what I think may be a nearly complete index and links to some Internet Archive/Wayback Machine archives of the stories. Please share with anyone who can use it. rebrand.ly/vice-archives
February 22, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Yesterday, I officially moved out of San Antonio. But today — and always — I stand with my former coworkers who are unionizing. #VivaSANewsGuild
February 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM