Ryan Best
Senior Graphics Developer at The Athletic
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Best is a Senior Graphics Developer in New York with eight years of experience turning complex datasets into clear, elegant visual stories for audiences at The Athletic, The Associated Press, and FiveThirtyEight. Trained with an MS in Data Visualization from Parsons, he blends front-end engineering (d3, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) with design tools like Sketch and Illustrator to craft interactive graphics and newsroom-ready visual journalism. His background spans product-grade analytics—building automated reporting pipelines and Tableau dashboards at WebMD and district-level education tools at Schoolzilla—so his visuals are both beautiful and operationally robust. Comfortable with data cleaning and Python/SQL, he bridges editorial goals and technical implementation to deliver timely, data-driven narratives. Colleagues rely on him for projects that require rigorous analysis delivered with refined aesthetics and newsroom speed.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Visualization, Master of Science - MS Data Visualization at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) Economics and International Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics and International Studies at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
13reputation
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Github Skills (20)
code-behind10
event-listener6
php6
ascii6
dynamic6
jquery6
forms6
javascript6
post6
onclick6
ads5
artwork2
adobe-illustrator2
spring1
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanabest/ryanabest.github.io
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Github Pages Repository
Contributions:14 PRs, 464 pushes, 15 branches in 7 years 7 months
jekyll
ryanabest/2024-wnba-predictions
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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