Andrew Tran

Data Reporter at The Washington Post

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

About

I write stories using data and share my work.

Experience

  • Data Reporter at The Washington Post
    May 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

    Data reporter for the Rapid Response Investigative Team

  • Adjunct Professor at American University
    Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos

    Teaching a course on Quantitative Methods & Data Visualization

  • R Data Journalism MOOC Course Creator at Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
    Jul 2018 - Aug 2018 · 2 mos

    Created and taught a massive open online course (MOOC) “Intro to R for Journalists: How to Find Great Stories in Data,” from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently admin of the related Facebook group "R for Journalists" with a thousand members. Content currently lives at https://learn.r-journalism.com/en/ for anyone to continue learning on their own.

  • Koeppel Journalism Fellow at Wesleyan University
    Jan 2017 - May 2017 · 5 mos

    Taught a data journalism course rooted in the R programming language.

  • Adjunct Professor at Central Connecticut State University
    Sep 2015 - May 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Taught students the skills necessary to find and tell stories using data and the knowledge required to understand the data itself, as well as how to communicate stories through visualizations like charts and maps.