Sophie Chou
Data Reporter
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophie Chou is a Pulitzer Prize–winning data reporter based in New York with 13 years of experience turning complex datasets into investigative stories at ProPublica and earlier newsrooms. Trained at MIT and Columbia Engineering, she combines rigorous research methods, statistical programming in Python and R, and newsroom storytelling to tackle topics like race, migration, gender, and technology. Her work spans long-form investigations, data-driven graphics, and media-analysis research for projects like Media Cloud, reflecting a blend of journalism and open-source research practice. Known for methodological rigor from fellowships at Pew and hands-on data work at PRI, she brings an unusually deep mix of academic research skills and day-to-day newsroom production.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
java3
jekyll1
Github contributions (5)
sbchou/sbchou.github.io
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:44 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sbchou/LATEX
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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