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Hello,  my name is...


Dhrumil Mehta (he/him)

Associate Prof. of Journalism @ Columbia U.

Deputy Director of Tow Center

Visiting Associate Prof of Public Policy @ Harvard Kennedy School


dhrumil.mehta@fivethirtyeight.com  

 @datadhrumil

@dmil

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

Data-Driven Storytelling

 

 

 

Data Scraping / Cleaning

Building Software

 

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

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

Research

Computationally analyzing text to better understand media and political environments.

I have a research interest in text analysis

Now your turn!!!

Instructor Intro

By Dhrumil Mehta

Instructor Intro

Saying hello to students

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