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Reuben Fischer-Baum

@reubenfb.bsky.social

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.

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Plus plenty of well-polished implementations of more “standard” graphics, like bubble scatters, small multiple time trends, and stacked areas. dhan1004.github.io/flight-on-ti... lilangeluh.github.io/nba-narrative/ anna-murphy.github.io/DATA1500/ ciarameyer.github.io/data1500/

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

A small multiple area chart showing how every position in the NBA has seen three-point attempts surge since 2011.

Small multiple scatters + rolling average showing the relatively flat CPU and GPU utilization of Oscar, Brown’s supercomputer.

A stacked area chart showing average monthly attendance for PWHL teams, and the impact of adding two expansion teams in 2025-26.

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This creativity extended to mapping as well, including a bivariate choropleth(!) and a Spilhaus projection (!!). awang1245.github.io/birder-watch... skylarwalters.github.io/whaling-in-ri/

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

A map showing whaling trips that originated in Rhode Island, using a special map projection that splits up land instead of the ocean.

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A particularly creative year for chart forms, including a thematic design around stratovolcanoes, a radial line chart, a festival-poster viz, and a timeline of WTA number ones. yichenli95.github.io/Volcano/ form41.jero.zone brwangenheim.github.io atansakul.github.io/the-road-to-...

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

A radial line chart showing monthly air passenger travel by year and month, and the huge impact of covid.

A visualization designed to look like posters for the Outside Lands festival in 2008, 2017 and 2026, highlighting how “far from their peak” each act was.

A timeline showing all the tennis players who have been #1 in WTA rankings since the 80s.

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just wrapped up another year teaching data viz to undergraduates and grad students at Brown! Threading a few favorites, but all 25 final narratives are worth a look. data1500.github.io/spring-2026/

data1500.github.io

DATA 1500 | Spring 2026 Brown University

Final projects from Spring 2026 Data Visualization & Narrative students

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Rhode Island folks! If you're interested in the intersection of data, journalism, and art, come listen to me moderate a talk with @suryamattu.com at RISD on Thursday, March 5, at 6:30pm.

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.

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A few of my favorite charts this semester, from: tpalsamu.github.io/pixar/ sitapawar.github.io/lunar-folklo... calkir.github.io/freedmans-ba... jaikapoor.github.io/cricket/

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

A chart showing that across mythological traditions, "Male sun/Female moon" is the most common gender combination.

A chart showing the amount of money that was lost by city during the Freedman's Bank collapse of 1874.

A chart showing how many runs Virat Kohli scored in each of his matches in 2016

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This was my second year teaching "Data Visualization & Narrative" at Brown. Check out this great set of final projects!

data1500.github.io

DATA 1500 | Spring 2025 Brown University

Final projects from Spring 2025 Data Visualization & Narrative students

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thank you!

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Unbelievably thankful for all the wonderful people I worked with on the graphics team. The Post also gave me rope to produce lighthearted work, like a showcase of newspapers created by kids during Covid. As a start a new job, here's a headline from one of them that’s become a bit of a mantra.

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

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

After nearly eight years at The Washington Post, I’m on to something new. This week I started as the Senior Data Editor on the recently formed Data Services team at Yahoo News. Excited to help build something from the ground up!

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just wrapped up my second year teaching Data Narratives at RISD! Here’s the great set of final data visualization/storytelling projects that the students put together: data-narratives.com

data-narratives.com

Data Narratives 2024

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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

One of my favorite stories I've gotten to edit recently: Can YOU spot which of these actors are wearing wigs? Come for the quiz, stay for the in-depth interviews and diagrams! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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