Leon Yin
Investigative Data Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLeon Yin is an award-winning investigative data journalist at Bloomberg News with 11 years of experience translating complex datasets into influential reporting on tech and society. He builds reproducible data pipelines and methods to quantify platform behavior—work on Google and Amazon self-preferencing has informed lawmakers, academics, and municipal policy such as Los Angeles’ ban on digital discrimination. Author of Inspect Element and a former Markup investigator, Leon combines rigorous social-science methods with production-grade research engineering that began writing Fortran scripts at NASA. He also teaches computational journalism at Columbia, bringing practical data skills to the next generation of reporters. Based in New York, he bridges newsroom storytelling and open research practices to make technical investigations both auditable and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry Computer Science at New York University
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Github Skills (88)
python10
python-client10
gtk10
qt10
pandas10
youtube10
api10
data-visualization10
data-science10
visualization10
matplotlib10
data-api10
manipulation10
parse10
youtube-data-api10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-placements
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 4 months
the-markup/investigation-isp
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:88 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
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