Reuben Fischer-Baum

@reubenfb.bsky.social

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Senior Data Editor @yahoonews.com. Previously @washingtonpost.com, FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP). 2021-2022 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown. See my work at reubenfb.com.

A bubble scatterplot showing how average delays are while taxing from vs. to the gate, at different top airports.

A U.S.-county map showing which parts of the countries have the most observations in the eBird database, compared with income levels.

A bar chart showing which types of volcanos are the most lethal, but the bars are illustrated volcanos. Stratovolcanoes are the deadliest.

A poster giving details for a lecture by artist and data journalist Surya Mattu. The event will take place at 6:30pm on March 5, in College Building (yes that's the official name) room 412.

A chart showing U.S. and global box office totals for every Pixar movie.

A children's newspaper that has a hand-drawn headline: HARD WORK FOR JUICY BERRIES.