Andrew Tran
Data Reporter
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Tran is a data reporter with a decade of experience turning messy records into clear, investigative stories for The Washington Post’s Rapid Response Investigative Team. He teaches quantitative methods and data visualization at the university level and created a popular MOOC, "Intro to R for Journalists," maintaining an active R-for-journalists community of around a thousand members. His work blends newsroom speed with reproducible analysis—applying R-based workflows to find stories, build visualizations, and grow open-data practices. A former data editor and producer at regional newsrooms like The Connecticut Mirror and The Boston Globe, he combines editorial judgment with technical chops to shepherd projects from dataset to publication. Based in Washington, D.C., he’s as comfortable lecturing in a classroom as he is rapidly deploying analyses for breaking coverage.
10 years of coding experience
BA, Government, BA, Government at The University of Texas at AustinSummer Fellowship for Young Journalists, Summer Fellowship for Young Journalists at Poynter InstituteGithub contributions (5)
andrewbtran/JRN-418
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:83 commits in 3 months
abtran2/abtran2.github.io
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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