Blake Mills
Program Manager Analytics AskCR at Consumer Reports
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Mills is a Program Manager in Analytics at Consumer Reports and a Columbia undergraduate studying Statistics, Political Science, and Psychology with a strong focus on urban innovation and smart cities. Over 11 years of experience spans data science fellowships, public-sector analytics, and research roles where he built tools like a web-scraping R package and created interactive maps to surface nonprofit impacts on community health. He has helped review and shape city data policies for What Works Cities, supported cross-functional research at the Urban Institute, and translated technical analyses into policy-ready visualizations for diverse stakeholders. Comfortable with R, Python, Stata, Tableau, and large-scale data cleaning, Blake combines technical rigor with a policy-minded perspective that bridges data science and civic impact. Notably, he brings hands-on experience operationalizing data ethics and stewardship in government and public-interest projects, making him effective at turning complex urban data into actionable public policy insights.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Political Science-Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Political Science-Statistics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkKearney High SchoolGithub contributions (5)
theVastNetwork/Project-Utility
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
theVastNetwork/AssemlyDicking
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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