Nigel Chiwaya
Senior Editor Data Viz
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNigel Chiwaya is a Senior Editor specializing in data visualization with 11 years of experience turning complex datasets into clear, engaging stories for major newsrooms including NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, and DNAinfo. He combines hands-on data analysis, web development skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), and editorial judgment to ship interactive graphics, live data pipelines, and investigative visual reporting. At NBC he built and maintains the site’s COVID-19 data pipeline and has led teams producing everything from election simulators to climate and temperature analyses. His background as a neighborhood reporter and multimedia producer gives him a knack for marrying rigorous data work with human-centered storytelling. Based in New York, he thrives at the intersection of newsroom deadlines and reproducible data workflows, often translating messy public data into accessible tools and narratives.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Communication Arts; TV/Radio Production, BFA, Communication Arts; TV/Radio Production at New York Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Journalism, Master of Science (M.S.), Journalism at Columbia University in the City of New York
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
seenigel/iframe-new-tab
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
seenigel/NND1
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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