Haluka Maier-borst
DIV -Team Lead at Handelsblatt
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHaluka Maier-borst is a data journalist and visualization leader with nine years’ experience turning messy code and rough sketches into compelling interactive stories, now leading the <DIV> team at Handelsblatt in Berlin. With a background in computational and data journalism (MSc, Cardiff) and a track record across Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and freelance work for DIE ZEIT, Spiegel Online and WIRED, they bridge reporting, analysis and design to make complex topics accessible. Known for a hands-on approach to data interactives and a long-standing curiosity about visual storytelling, Haluka combines newsroom discipline with developer tooling fluency. They bring an uncommon mix of science-journalism training and product-minded leadership that keeps experiments scrappy yet editorially rigorous.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computational and Data Journalism, Master of Science - MS, Computational and Data Journalism at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBachelor of Arts - BA, Wissenschaftsjournalismu, 1.6, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Wissenschaftsjournalismu, 1.6 at Technische Universität Dortmund
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
visuals10
vega9
altair9
vega-lite9
spatial8
python8
jupyterlab8
visualization8
matplotlib8
jupyter7
geospatial7
geographic7
geopandas7
jupyterlab-extension7
geography7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HalukaMB/codeacademy
Sep 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:202 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
Datenrausch/NotBroken
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:102 PRs, 276 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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