YDN Data Desk

The Data Desk is a new initiative to bring data-driven journalism to the News. Now in its second year, our team of data reporters use open datasets to investigate current campus issues, work with beat reporters to craft a compelling story, and produce interactive data visualizations to create immersive experiences for readers.

We're recruiting people who are passionate about using data to uncover meaningful stories at Yale and in New Haven, and then tell those stories to a broad audience. Sound like you? Whether you have a statistics, computer science, or humanities background, get in touch→. We'd love to work with you.

Below, you'll find some of the projects we've worked on, what tools we use, and information on members of our team.

Past projects and stories

Note that the bylines below include both data reporters and beat reporters.

Tools we use

And, if you join us, we can teach you these tools!

Meet our team

Maggie Nolan '21

Co-founder & co-editor

Statistics & Data Science and Economics

Daniel Zhao '21+0.5?

Co-founder & co-editor

Statistics & Data Science and Global Affairs

Ashley Qin '22

Demographic data team

Biomedical Engineering

Omar Chishti '22

Dining team

Biomedical Engineering

Yuan Wong '22

Dining team

Statistics & Data Science

Darwin Do '23+0.5

Courses team

Computer Science

Daniel Kim '22

Demographic data team

Statistics & Data Science

Zully Arias '23

Dining team

Statistics & Data Science

Isha Dalal '21

Professors team

Thomas Woodside '23

Professors team

Michael Chau '21

Courses team

Nathan Kim '22

Courses team

Emma Levin '22

Demographic data team

Isabel Corpus '21

Demographic data team

Jess Pevner '21

Demographic data team