Tim McGovern
I approach communication as an opportunity for delight and empowerment. In the twenty-first century, knowledge is both pleasure and power—both of which should be open to all. Before embarking on a career in publishing, I studied ancient intellectual history at Chicago in the College and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. I live in Chicago, but no matter where we meet, I probably arrived by bike.
- Key Skills
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- Developmental editing, nonfiction and technical
- Book indexing
- Proofreading
- Media strategy
- Mixing code, data, and explanation
- Writing
- Developmental editing
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Representative samples
- Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach, by Josh Patterson and Adam Gibson. O'Reilly Media, 2017.
- Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice From the Trenches, by Carl Anderson. O'Reilly Media, 2015.
- Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Avner Wishnitzer. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View, by Peter K. B. St. Jean. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Book Indexing
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Representative Samples
- I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- The Global Pigeon, by Colin Jerolmack. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture, by Adrian Daub. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, by Andrew Hartman. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Proofreading
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Dissertations proofread
- "Precision Mass Measurements of Short-Lived, Neutron-Rich, R-Process Nuclei About the N=82 Waiting Point," by Daniel Lascar (Northwestern University: Physics)
- "Acculturation to what? Unveiling 'fragmented acculturation' and 'subjective mainstreams' in a Muslim American community," by Melissa J. K. Howe (University of Chicago: Sociology)
- "Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 in the Dunning Prostate Cancer Model: A Novel Upregulation in Metastasis," by Thelma Tennant (University of Chicago: Cancer Biology)
- Writing
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Paid blog posts, samples
- Smart cities are safe and efficient cities
- "Terra incognita" is no excuse
- Real-time data for the real world
- Apache MXNet—the fruit of cross-institutional collaboration
Personal blog posts, samples
- Talks and Papers
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- Computation + Journalism Conference, 2017: "Machine Assisted Dossiers," by Forest Gregg, Jean Cochrane, and Timothy McGovern
- PyData Chicago, 2016: "Data Ethics in Five Minutes (That's Preposterous!)" (lightning talk)
- University of Virginia Graduate Student Colloquium, 2010: "And now I perceived innovations were already begun: Historical Change in Josephus' Thought."
- Code and data
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- Temperature blanket: visualizing weather (virtual preparation for visualization in yarn). With bonus moving dataviz of 21 years of Chicago weather.
- motivation.py: a little widget to help stay motivated and focused
- Secret-Santa.ipynb: coordinate and send your family's holiday gift drawing with Python.
- Education
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Dominican University-M.A.T., Middle and Secondary Education, Social Science, 2022
University of Chicago—A.M., Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, 2001
University of Chicago—A.B., Classics and History, 1999
- References
- Available on request
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