Hannah Recht
Software Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Recht is a software engineer and data journalist with 11 years of experience translating complex public datasets into clear, actionable stories using statistical analysis, geospatial methods, and compelling graphics. Based in Washington, DC, she specializes in U.S. Census data—authoring the open-source R package censusapi to make bureau data programmatically accessible and sharing cleaned data and code to promote transparency. Her work sits at the intersection of investigative reporting and reproducible data science, routinely enabling local reporters and the public to verify findings through GitHub and easy-to-use spreadsheets. Hannah’s background in math and statistics gives her a rigorous analytic foundation, while her reporting practice ensures technical outputs are audience-focused and policy-relevant. She’s known for digging into the “weeds” of demographic trends and disparities, turning bureaucratic datasets into stories that illuminate how decisions by people in power affect everyday lives.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Math and Statistics at University of Rochester
Github Skills (110)
metadata10
datasets10
knitr10
static-html10
r10
sports-data10
api10
census-data10
r-package10
census10
bootstrapping10
open-data10
meta-analysis10
demographics10
data-files9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UrbanInstitute/ipeds-scraper
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Download IPEDS complete data files
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
data-filespython
UrbanInstitute/mapping-uncertainty
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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