David Montgomery
Senior Data Journalist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Montgomery is a senior data journalist with 11 years of experience blending rigorous reporting, data analysis and programming to explain politics, urban affairs, public health and the economy. Fluent in R and experienced with GIS and Illustrator, he builds reproducible workflows and R packages to automate analysis and deliver clear visual storytelling from large surveys and complex datasets. At YouGov he analyzes American public opinion and streamlines newsroom tools, and his work at MPR, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and CityLab demonstrates a track record of turning technical analysis into accessible journalism. He also produces The Siècle podcast, a long-running history project with over half a million downloads, showing a knack for deep research and narrative across formats. Colleagues rely on him not just for charts and code but for creative ways to frame data-driven stories that resonate with busy audiences.
11 years of coding experience
B.A., Political Science, B.A., Political Science at Grinnell CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Oak Lawn Community High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
data-journalism9
graph9
yourls8
methodology8
r-package8
r7
url-shortener7
magick7
php7
ggplot6
graphic6
imagemagick5
csv5
spatial5
image-manipulation5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MPR-News/covid-data
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Data and graphs about Minnesota's COVID-19 outbreak, along with code to generate it
Contributions:136 commits, 173 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
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dhmontgomery/covid-data
Mar 2022 - Jan 2024
Data and graphs about Minnesota's COVID-19 outbreak, along with code to generate it
Contributions:189 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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