Hi, I'm Jessie Blaeser!

I am a multimedia data journalist at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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How much better does Trae Young actually make his teammates?

Two-time NBA All Star is known for his finess on the court. I used player data to measure Young's impact on the Hawks he plays with most often.


Python/Pandas Beautiful Soup GGPlot/Plotnine APIs DataWrapper

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Abandoned but not forgotten: New York’s once-booming oil industry and the wells it left behind

Published in City & State Magazine, May 9, 2022


Using over a century's worth of data, my team and I found thousands of abandoned oil wells have yet to be plugged in New York, each representing an environmental threat.


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Pipeline incident map, 2010 to present

Most expensive pipeline incidents

Material failures are the root cause of the country's most expensive pipeline incidents from 2010 to today.


Python/Pandas QGIS HTML Illustrator

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Federal Court Nominees' Pro Bono Work

Scrapping, categorizing and mapping judicial nominees by the pro bono work they completed prior to nomination.


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Treemap of political apologies

Vizualizing Political Apologies for Human Rights Violations

War is the most common cause for contrition among top apologizers.


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Q&A: A Food Delivery Worker Organized to Protect Fellow Workers

A grassroots org works as an insurance policy of sorts for delivery workers, who count on each other for assistance, if not from officials, from the community.


Visualization of Ticket to Ride: Europe gameboard showing the probability of routes being taken by the end of the game

Ticket to Ride: Europe Analysis

What is Ticket to Ride, you say? Imagine Settlers of Catan, but with more public transit and less sheep. In this project, I visualize the most likely routes to be taken by players over the course of the game.


Python/Pandas DataWrapper APIs MatPlotLib

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