Jared Whalen
Senior Journalist-Engineer at Polygraph/The Pudding
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Whalen is a senior journalist-engineer with a decade of experience turning complex datasets into clear, engaging visual stories for outlets like The Pudding, Axios, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He blends R/Tidyverse, modern JavaScript (ES6+), Svelte, D3, Node.js and GIS tools to build interactive, design-forward visualizations and newsroom data tools. His background in the Army Reserve informs a disciplined, systems-minded approach to coordinating cross-functional projects under tight deadlines. Jared also consults on water and agricultural reporting for the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, bringing geospatial analysis into environmental journalism. Comfortable in both code and design—plus Illustrator and QGIS—he thrives where data science, cartography, and storytelling intersect.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Geospatial Data Science, Graduate Certificate, Geospatial Data Science at Temple University
Github Skills (2)
svelte2
sveltekit2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jaredwhalen/mwy-farewell-tracker
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:182 commits, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
the-pudding/sample-trees
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:93 PRs, 106 pushes, 68 branches in 5 months
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