Dhrumil Mehta
Associate Professor Of Data Journalism
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDhrumil Mehta is an Associate Professor of Data Journalism at Columbia University and a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard Kennedy School with 13 years of experience at the intersection of data, code, and public affairs. He built and maintained FiveThirtyEight’s core databases and live dashboards as a former database journalist, turning quantitative social science methods into clear, data-driven storytelling. Comfortable both as a software engineer (Amazon security apps, large-scale data pipelines) and an educator, he designs hands-on courses that teach policymakers how to reason with code and manage technical projects. He also runs open data and tooling initiatives—training newsroom colleagues and releasing public datasets—bringing product-minded engineering to journalism. Based in New York, he combines a philosophy BA and an MS in computer science, a mix that surfaces in his knack for translating technical complexity into principled, actionable narratives.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Taylor High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at Northwestern University
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dmil/mozilla-website-OLD
Jan 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years
dmil/teddymail
Aug 2013 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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