Joe Yerardi
Data Reporter News Developer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Yerardi is a data reporter and news developer with a decade of experience turning public records and complex datasets into impactful investigative stories, interactive news apps, and visualizations. Currently at The Philadelphia Inquirer, he combines advanced Python, R and SQL skills with hands-on newsroom reporting to support and elevate enterprise coverage. His background spans nonprofit investigative work, consumer finance analysis, and local newsrooms—work recognized by a Gerald Loeb Award—showing a rare blend of rigorous methodology and clear storytelling. He’s comfortable shipping searchable databases, maps and charts from acquisition through visualization, and often reviews and hardens colleagues’ data methods to ensure accuracy. Based in Philadelphia, he brings both newsroom instincts and technical craft to projects that hold institutions accountable and make data accessible to the public.
10 years of coding experience
B.A., History, Journalism, B.A., History, Journalism at New York UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PublicI/employment-discrimination
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:53 commits, 1 push in 1 year
PublicI/natural-disasters
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
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