
Reuben Fischer-Baum
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Senior Data Editor @YahooNews. Previously @PostGraphics, @FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP.) 2021-22 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown.
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Worked with Maura, edited by Emily M. Eng and Zachary Pincus-Roth, on this fun lil visual look at Barbie's bajillion and one jobs over the years. It's a Barbie world -- we're just living in it. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…



Who doesn't love a webpage that tells you when you're going to die?? This week we published an interactive calculator that lets you compare American life expectancy with people in other countries. Graphics by the outstanding Leslie Shapiro and Carson TerBush washingtonpost.com/world/interact…


The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive. The Washington Post’s Dying Early series starts running in print on A1 Sunday washingtonpost.com/health/interac… Read the rest of the series here: washingtonpost.com/health/2023/10…



You’ve heard of the Boston Tea Party. Its 250th anniversary is Saturday. But why is Rhode Island’s own rebellion — 18 months earlier — repeatedly scrubbed from our textbooks? It’s a tale of who got to write our history — and blaming Harvard. More here: washingtonpost.com/history/2023/1…



Got back into teaching data design this year with classes at RISD Graphic Design and Brown Data Science Institute. Check out the great final projects that my Brown undergrads put together! data1500.github.io/spring-2024/


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/ Diane Napolitano, Kati Perry & Luis Melgar washingtonpost.com/elections/inte…


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 Data Science Institute! dsi.brown.edu/news/2024-08-2…
