Angela M. Wang

  • Currently learning at the Recurse Center! Joining Business Insider as an investigative data reporter in December.

  • Rookie coder, expert insomniac.

  • Alumna of Columbia U. (data journalism), Northwestern U. (art history + studio art), and some forgotten corners of the internet.

  • Previously made a living at Gizmodo, Gawker (R.I.P.), and BuzzFeed.

  • I used to make dumb websites and blogs and gifs. More of my visual work — data viz, photography, and animated drawings — can be peeped here.

Ponzi schemes since Madoff

The New York Times

Writing, reporting, analysis, unpublished viz

Tools: Python, Pandas, Matplotlib

Jeffrey Epstein's flights

Business Insider

Spatial analysis, secondary reporting/writing, viz

Tools: QGIS, Illustrator

The future of Spiral Jetty

Hyperallergic

Writing, reporting, photography

A people map of the US

The Pudding

Data collection & processing

Tools: Python, Pandas

Ethereum ICO fever

Motherboard/Vice

Writing, reporting

Red tape in Christiania

Atlas Obscura

Writing, reporting

Fecal bacteria in NYC beach water

Gothamist

Writing, analysis, viz

Tools: Pandas, Matplotlib

When robocalls are made

Insider

Writing, analysis

Tools: Pandas

Selfie deaths

N/A

Viz

Tools: Pandas, D3.js

24-hour beauty diary

Jezebel

Writing

Photographing wildlife with Canon

Studio@Gizmodo

Writing, copywriting, photography

Surveilling for Black Mirror

Studio@Gizmodo

Writing, copywriting

Hard to reach

N/A

Spatial analysis, viz.

Tools: QGIS. Honestly this is just a recreation of a NYT map w/more recent data from American FactFinder.

Drugs on the dark web

N/A

Analysis, viz

Gender in art institutions

N/A

Analysis, viz

Do women have to be naked to get into art museums? An ongoing project inspired by the Guerilla Girls.