Lam Vo
Contributing Investigative Reporter
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLam Vo is an investigative reporter and data journalist with 11 years of experience exploring the intersections of inequality, technology, race, and immigration. Based in New York, he combines hands-on data mining and Python skills with long-form reporting, teaching data journalism at CUNY and running workshops for immigrant communities on misinformation and AI. He has built and published practical tools for mining social web data (authoring a No Starch Press Python book) and has reported for outlets including The Markup, BuzzFeed, ProPublica, and the New York Times. Equally comfortable in the classroom and the newsroom, he designs publishable investigative projects, mentors freelancers, and guides editorial teams on data and tech. A global speaker and trainer, he brings field-tested multimedia and code-driven storytelling to investigations that center marginalized voices.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Back-end web development, Back-end web development at General AssemblyMS Journalism (New Media), MS Journalism (New Media) at Columbia University - Graduate School of JournalismJavasScript, JavasScript at School of Visual ArtsUniversity College London
German, Vietnamese, French
Github Skills (16)
social-media10
twitter10
youtube10
facebook10
python9
javascript4
react4
topic-modeling2
particle2
visualization2
emitter1
audio1
data-visualization1
aws1
git-repository1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lamthuyvo/advanced-coding-cuny2016
Aug 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
lamthuyvo/lamthuyvo.github.io
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:134 commits, 96 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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