writing
reporting, essays, research and editing. most of it starts with a dataset or a document nobody had read closely yet.
the daily californian · data desk
Fare-free Clipper card saves students $5M, new BayPass referendum projected to break even
berkeley students voted for fare-free transit, and the university came out about $5 million ahead. the reason wasn't the new agencies students gained access to. it was the trips they took on the one they already had.
built from public records requests to uc berkeley and the metropolitan transportation commission, reconciled in python.
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the daily californian
International student admissions surge across UC system amid funding uncertainties
traced the 2022 compact between the university and the governor through its later revisions, and compiled a decade of tuition and admissions data across the uc system to find the trends underneath.
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the daily californian
Breaking down the $1.2 million in UC Berkeley student organization funds
an interactive force simulation of every berkeley club that receives university funding, built in d3.js.
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the new york times
‘My Conflicting Views on Affirmative Action’: The Week 4 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
a guest essay for the nyt learning network's summer reading contest
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prickly paradigm press
Kayfabe and Misinformation Ran Amok in DC on July 4th
a dispatch on the rise of kayfabe in washington, and what it means when politics is performed for an audience.
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prickly paradigm press
Bradbury, False Slop, and the Dead Internet Theory
a dispatch on how anthropology can help make sense of ai slop and big data.
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citizens for responsibility & ethics in washington
CREW files amicus briefs in support of state law enforcement ID requirement and ban on masks
one of 10+ write-ups turning lawsuits, complaints, foia requests and congressional letters into something a general reader can follow, plus data visualizations on dark money and corporate donations.
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berkeley center for studies in higher education
The Silence of the SyllabAI: Analyzing AI Policies in College Syllabi
scraped and analyzed more than 75,000 syllabi with natural language processing to map how generative ai policies vary. won the research storytelling award at the uc berkeley cdss symposium.
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