Assisting middle- and high-school students in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on improving their understanding of math curriculum

* Conduct analyses for the Data and Graphics desk that inform reporting projects across a variety of subjects at the newspaper of record in Los Angeles* Acquire data through public records requests, online scrapers and rigorous research* Write scripts in R and python to work with data sets of various types* Analyze data with statistical methods rooted in academic theory* Work in collaboration with reporters across the newsroom to identify trends and find voices for stories* Present key findings through prose, charts, maps, websites and more* Distill technical concepts into plain language for a non-technical audience* Portfolio of L.A. Times work: ryanvmenezes.github.io/portfolio/