Will Craft
Data Editor, Investigations
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWill Craft is a data-driven investigative journalist and editor with 11 years of experience using Python and other languages to expose failures in public health, criminal justice, and government accountability. As Data Editor, Investigations at The Guardian US and formerly an investigative data reporter at APM Reports, he has built unique public-records databases that powered award-winning reporting, including work cited at the Supreme Court that helped overturn a wrongful conviction. He specializes in stitching together messy government datasets—most notably a large national jury-selection database—and turning them into rigorous, story-driven evidence. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends newsroom leadership with hands-on data engineering and storytelling, often collaborating with local partners on long-form investigations and podcasts. Colleagues rely on him for technical rigor and creative approaches to sourcing hard-to-find records.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science, Bachelor's Degree, Political Science at The University of Chicago
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wcraft/census-data-downloader
Jun 2019 - Jul 2024
Download Census data and reformat it for humans
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
pythonreformatfor-humanscensuscensus-data
wcraft/wcraft.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 year
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