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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
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Associate Prof. @ Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
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Visiting Prof. @ Harvard Kennedy School
Previously
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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