Reuben Fischer-Baum

Senior Data Editor @YahooNews. Previously @PostGraphics, @FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP.) 2021-22 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown.

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Plus plenty of well-polished implementations of more “standard” visualizations, like bubble scatters, small multiple time trends, and stacked areas.

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[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Just wrapped up another year teaching data viz to undergraduates and grad students at Brown! Threading a few favorites, but all 25 final narratives are worth a look. https://t.co/D4KqQG2SID

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

This creativity extended to mapping as well, including a bivariate choropleth(!) and a Spilhaus projection (!!).

https://t.co/UCREs5rU5t
https://t.co/UcqB8ERTna

[Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul]

New: How the federal government is using AI

[Emily Wilkins @emrwilkins]

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[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

@PranavDixit Thank you!

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

After nearly eight years at The Washington Post, I’m on to something new. This week I started as the Senior Data Editor on the recently formed Data Services team at Yahoo News. Excited to help build something from the ground up!

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Unbelievably thankful for all the wonderful people I worked with on the graphics team. The Post gave me a lot of rope to produce lighthearted work, like a showcase of newspapers created by kids during Covid. Here's a headline from one of them that’s become a bit of a mantra.

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Just wrapped up my second year teaching “Data Narratives” at RISD! Here’s the great set of final data visualization/storytelling projects that the students put together, all produced via R → Illustrator https://t.co/VljsRifzuH

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Since I moved to Providence, I’ve been teaching data visualization at RISD and Brown. Here’s a nice write-up of my class last semester at @Brown_DSI!

https://t.co/mWvsHuc6iG

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Finally, with @kt_prry and Luis Melgar (and many others outside of graphics), we designed and released The Post’s first ever polling modeling page! https://t.co/iEuKdz9lii

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Journalism is tough but one benefit it does offer is variety. Here are three very different projects I got to edit over the past few weeks.

First, I worked with @sadbumblebee on the data presentation for an investigation into police abusing children https://t.co/mYoxka7szC

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Then, again with @sadbumblebee, a much lighter story on trends in baby names, and why there are so many Carsons/Masons/Graysons/Jacksons nowadays https://t.co/kG4yupL1Y2

[Lenny Bronner @lennybronner]

Our polling average topline takeaway: Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states that are most likely to determine the outcome of the election, but PA, WI and MI are within a typically-sized polling error.
w/ @dianesaysword, @kt_prry & Luis Melgar

https://t.co/1kYl6W6io5

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

@abtran @risd_gd @Brown_DSI ggplot -> Illustrator mostly! Although there were some Python students and the class was technically code agnostic

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

Got back into teaching data design this year with classes at @risd_gd and @Brown_DSI. Check out the great final projects that my Brown undergrads put together!

https://t.co/rvdGEqHZZj

[Reuben Fischer-Baum @ReubenFB]

One of my favorite stories I've gotten to edit recently: Can YOU spot which of these actors are wearing wigs?

Come for the quiz, stay for the in-depth interviews and diagrams!

https://t.co/ZeaiL96TwI

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Tom Scocca is one of the most careful, intelligent, incisive writers and editors I have ever worked with. The human toll of the collapse of the journalism industry haunts this (excellent) story.
https://t.co/PMIaOfIOga