Reuben Fischer-Baum

@ryanabest Oh cool!

@ReubenFB The good news is, super user was meant to be public! Anyone can use that little dev panel to set any result they'd like and see how the tournament would change

Scotland's chances of qualifying keep dropping — so much so that we don't even have space for their full name on our handy third-place qualification odds by group chart anymore. #superuser=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/athletic/inter…

Plus plenty of well-polished implementations of more “standard” visualizations, like bubble scatters, small multiple time trends, and stacked areas. dhan1004.github.io/flight-on-time/ lilangeluh.github.io/nba-narrative/ anna-murphy.github.io/DATA1500/ ciarameyer.github.io/data1500/

This creativity extended to mapping as well, including a bivariate choropleth(!) and a Spilhaus projection (!!). awang1245.github.io/birder-watchin… skylarwalters.github.io/whaling-in-ri/

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. data1500.github.io/spring-2026/

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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."

@PranavDixit Thank you!

@ReubenFB Congrats, Reuben!

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!

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.

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 data-narratives.com

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! dsi.brown.edu/news/2024-08-2…

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! washingtonpost.com/elections/inte…

Then, again with @sadbumblebee, a much lighter story on trends in baby names, and why there are so many Carsons/Masons/Graysons/Jacksons nowadays washingtonpost.com/business/inter…

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 washingtonpost.com/investigations…

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 washingtonpost.com/elections/inte…

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

@ReubenFB @risd_gd @Brown_DSI Hmm… ggplot2??

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! data1500.github.io/spring-2024/