Highlights:

Currently

• Associate Prof. @ Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

• Visiting Prof. @ Harvard Kennedy School

Previously

• Database Journalist, Politics @ FiveThirtyEight

• Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
• Northwestern:
  • BA in Philosophy + Minor in Cognitive Science
  • MS in Computer Science

Database Journalist, Politics

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/job-opening-database-journalist-politics/

Data-Driven Storytelling

https://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/dhrumil-mehta

Data Scraping / Cleaning

Building Software

Public Facing

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-d/national/

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Internal

Polls Database

Bots

Internal Workflows

Bots

Reports Election Results

Bots

Lets readers see results that FiveThirtyEight deems unexpected

Expectations are calibrated before results ever start coming in.

Open Data

data.fivethirtyeight.com

https://www.datajournalismawards.org/project-listing/?project_id=2082

Research

http://journalism.stanford.edu/cj2016/files/Newsbots.pdf

Computationally analyzing text to better understand media and political environments.

I have a research interest in text analysis