Mark Hansen
David And Helen Gurley Brown Professor Of Journalism at Brown Institute for Media Innovation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMark Hansen is the David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism at Columbia and founding director of the Brown Institute’s east coast arm, bringing nearly three decades of work at the intersection of data, art, and journalism. Trained as a statistician (M.A./Ph.D., UC Berkeley) with a background in applied mathematics, he combines academic rigor with industrial R&D experience from Bell Labs and leadership roles at UCLA. Hansen’s teaching in computational journalism has produced high-impact investigative work—most notably contributing to The New York Times’ "The Follower Factory," which influenced platform policy and won major reporting awards. An active artist and inventor, his data-driven installations have been exhibited at MoMA and the Whitney and he holds eight patents alongside 60+ publications. He also serves on boards and councils shaping political transparency and social-science research, blending creative public-facing practice with measurable policy and scholarly impact.
9 years of coding experience
M.S., Applied Mathematics, M.S., Applied Mathematics at University of California, DavisM.A. and Ph.D., Statistics, M.A. and Ph.D., Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (1)
journalism5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
browninstitute/c-plus-j-website
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:237 commits, 90 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
computationaljournalism/columbia2020
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
2020 Computational Journalism Class
Contributions:138 commits, 136 pushes in 1 year
journalismcomputational
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