Matthew Waite
Professor Of Practice at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Waite is a Professor of Practice and journalist-turned-developer who has spent 15+ years teaching data journalism, programming, and digital publishing while founding the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He combines newsroom experience—most notably as the principal developer of PolitiFact.com, the first website to win a Pulitzer—with hands-on product development through his consultancy Hot Type Consulting. Matthew publishes all course materials openly on GitHub and holds an MS in Business Analytics, reflecting his commitment to reproducible, data-driven reporting. He teaches communicators to build practical tools and visualizations, and uniquely blends investigative reporting instincts with technical mentorship in robotics and civic tech.
15 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (35)
mass10
data-journalism10
sports-data10
bookdown10
visualization9
data-visualisation9
flying9
data-analysis8
static-site8
data-science8
communications8
aviation7
bots7
timelapse7
django7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DroneJournalismLab/OperationsManual
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
report-toreportmanualdronenews
mattwaite/SPMC350-Sports-Data-Analysis-And-Visualization
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 6 months
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