Dhrumil Mehta Email & Phone Number

Dhrumil Mehta is a Data Journalist at Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism. He possess expertise in public speaking, python, machine learning, java, matlab and 19 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "In 2019, I was fortunate to take the course taught by Prof. Dhrumil Mehta, DPI-691M: Programming and Data for Policymakers. His class paid more attention to practice, trained students step by step. He provided very clear lecture notes, completed Github code and instructions, and printed out these processes in class for students in each class. He attaches great importance to the effect of the course and attaches great importance to various small problems in the each team. We gathered in front of the classroom 10 minutes before each class so that everyone can raise the current problems and get answers in time. This method was very effective. Every software team won't be stuck in one place. A lot of software and languages were involved in the classroom, Since tt is difficult to use one single language to complete an application goal, Therefore, such as Github, Python, Java, Html, MySQL, etc. are constantly added to the project in the application. He will flexibly choose great materials and animations on youtube to meet the needs of the classroom, and invite some other experts and programmers to introduce some very professional information through remote videos. These flexible external resources allow students to further understand the industry Many of the latest dynamics and working models in the industry make us always keep consistent and passionate about the real world. The content of this course is very compact and runs through with practical purposes, providing a complete set of software solutions. Before the class, I had a lot of models and algorithms, which were very clear in mathematics and physics, but how to show these dynamic processes, I had a lot of technical difficulties, not subversive difficulties, but very occupied time. Professor Dhrumil Mehta's solution allows me to quickly apply it, integrating algorithms, web pages, visualization, and interaction. It is extremely exciting to let each algorithm give birth to our own children and show it to more people. This is where Professor Dhrumil Mehta helped me tremendously. For the past three years, I have been conducting my research using this series of tools, which he gave me.It made my thoughts fly so that my thinking can not be occupied by various software operations, thus greatly improved efficiency. Any researcher who focuses on basic theory and algorithm research actually needs such a high-quality software platform to develop and display these by himself, maximize the value of those algorithm theories, and benefit more people on the Internet. His courses have turned the Internet into a part of our own body. Thanks to his methods, the Internet is no longer just social and information, but an extension of our brains and limbs. We mine, process, analyze, and display these data on the Internet, interact with a large number of people with same interests. It become a magical world of our own. Prof. Dhrumil Mehta provides this whole set of solutions. Sincerely yours, xiaowen kang", "Dhrumil was a terrific contributor to the Knight Lab at Northwestern, an academic R&D lab where we focus on building tools for journalists, publishers and media consumers. Not only did he do programming for one of our projects, he got involved in a variety of other activities and seemed to become inspired by the possibilities involved in applying his technology skills and interests to the mission of journalism and informed communities. He also demonstrated that he is self-motivated and able to see connections between computer science and journalism. Dhrumil took a natural-language-processing project he developed at Northwestern to journalists at USA Today, and has been collaborating with them to apply his methodology to a project that will be published by the newspaper. Dhrumil is smart, engaged and committed to improving the world around him - looking forward to seeing how he has an impact beyond Northwestern.", and "As a Media Cloud intern, Dhrumil was committed to his individual portfolio as well as extremely helpful in supporting the broader project. In particular, Dhrumil went out of his way to teach technical skills to those around him. For example, he taught a fellow intern how to code, helped others become more comfortable with technological aspects of their research, and spearheaded a summer intern luncheon series that allowed the summer cohort to share their research and exchange ideas. I recommend Dhrumil as a team player who is capable of working effectively both on his own and with others, and who is clearly interested in harnessing technology as a tool for social good."

Listed skills include Public Speaking, Python, Machine Learning, Java, and 20 others.