“These new hires give us much more mathematical firepower behind our dwell election mannequin, permitting us to extra rigorously monitor votes, go deeper into election outcomes, and supply readers with essential perception and context on turnout throughout the midterm elections,” mentioned Jeremy Bowers, director of engineering at The Put up. “Our elections engineering crew is a dynamic and inventive group that’s constructing out among the most enjoyable and modern dwell election experiences within the business. This crew enlargement will complement our already robust workers and assist us ship new and impactful experiences for our readers this 12 months, and in 2024.”
Becoming a member of the crew, which incorporates Bowers, his deputy Anthony Pesce, Knowledge Science Lead Lenny Bronner and Engineering Leads Brittany Renee Mayes and Dylan Freedman, are:
Jen Haskell joins The Put up as a principal engineer. Haskell will work on the intersection of information science and platform engineering.
Previous to becoming a member of The Put up, Haskell labored as a knowledge scientist within the healthcare house, most lately at Prealize Well being the place she led the info science crew. She has labored extensively on scaling knowledge science and machine studying workflows, constructing manufacturing knowledge pipelines, and conducting knowledge evaluation. Haskell has a Ph.D. in political science, and her dissertation analysis used textual content knowledge and pure language processing methods to deepen understanding of congressional speech.
Tyler Fisher joins The Put up as a principal engineer. Fisher will work on platform engineering.
Fisher joins The Put up from Information Catalyst, a neighborhood information sustainability challenge he co-founded at Temple College funded by the Knight-Lenfest Native Information Transformation Fund. At Information Catalyst, Fisher co-founded the Tiny Information Collective and constructed the Tiny Information Platform, a low-cost CMS resolution for members of the collective. Previous to founding Information Catalyst, Fisher labored at Politico and NPR on information functions groups, the place he targeted on election outcomes, dwell transcription and visible storytelling.
Chris Zubak-Skees joins The Put up as a principal engineer, and might be engaged on delivering precinct election outcomes in addition to infrastructure and evaluation to assist The Put up’s reporting on federal marketing campaign finance.
Zubak-Skees joins The Put up from a stint as a contract developer, throughout which he labored on initiatives at The Put up and different information organizations, together with STAT, ProPublica and FiveThirtyEight. He’s a former knowledge editor on the Heart for Public Integrity, the place he constructed knowledge pipelines, contributed analyses and constructed interactive visuals for investigative initiatives. He has labored extensively with cash in politics and authorities transparency knowledge, creating instruments utilized by a number of newsrooms. His work has been acknowledged with Gerald Loeb, Philip Meyer and Malofiej honors.
Dara Gold joins The Put up as a senior knowledge scientist, and might be engaged on The Put up’s dwell election mannequin.
Earlier than becoming a member of The Put up, Gold was a researcher in computational redistricting. She labored for the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) at Tufts College, and served as a authorized consulting knowledgeable on redistricting after the 2020 Census. She co-authored a paper on the right way to make computer-generated district plans compliant with the Voting Rights Act, which has been cited in a number of court docket opinions and briefs in gerrymandering instances.
Earlier than finding out redistricting, Gold was a mathematician on the RAND Company the place she labored on modeling and simulations for a wide range of functions. It’s additionally the place she first grew to become all for making use of math to creating truthful districts and to election challenges extra typically. Gold has a PhD in math from Boston College and a BS from Georgetown College.
Dana Cassidy joins The Put up as a full-time engineer following her summer season internship. She’ll work on creating front-end options to visualise and show election outcomes.
Cassidy is from Orlando, Florida and is a current graduate from the College of Florida with a B.S. in Journalism and a specialization in Knowledge and Internet Functions. She beforehand interned on the Miami Herald — the place her work contributed to the Herald’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking Information — the Orlando Sentinel, and The Palm Seashore Put up. She additionally positioned first total within the nationwide 2022 Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Pupil Innovation competitors.
