Geoff Hing
Data Reporter
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoff Hing is a data reporter and developer with 16 years of experience building tools and storytelling platforms that strengthen civic discourse. Combining a CS undergraduate and an MS in Journalism, he moves fluidly between Python data pipelines, computer-vision extraction of tables from PDFs, mapping and interactive visualizations, and newsroom reporting workflows. He’s delivered data-driven projects for The Marshall Project, APM Reports, and major regional newsrooms while leading open-data efforts like OpenElections and community-focused platforms such as Floodlight. Known for pragmatic tooling—ETL frameworks, custom map tiles, and lightweight web stacks—he brings both technical rigor and an eye for clear public-facing narratives. Based in Tucson, he prioritizes community impact and playfulness in building media technologies that help people solve problems and tell better stories.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Journalism, Master of Science, Journalism at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
English
Stackoverflow
1,625reputation
668kreached
17answers
6questions
postgresql
top-5%
sqlite
top-5%
unit-testing
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
record-linkage10
elections10
svg10
java-bytecode10
matching10
visualization10
data-acquisition10
char10
pdf-parsing10
csv10
transformation10
pdf-files10
vega10
rectangle10
x-plane10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ghing/cookiecutter-python-project-ghing
May 2020 - Aug 2023
Basic cookiecutter template for Python projects
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 4 months
templatepythonjinja2python-projectscookiecutter-template
ghing/geoff-wordpress-theme
Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
A WordPress theme for my personal website.
Contributions:11 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
wordpresswordpress-theme
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