shooting<\/a> data at The Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n\u201cGeoff brings experience, depth and sensitivity to data reporting that is essential for understanding immense, complex systems like criminal justice,\u201d said David Eads, data editor at The Marshall Project. \u201cGeoff will help expand our horizons, deepen our understanding, and help build a healthy, skeptical data culture in our newsroom.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hing has worked in data journalism since 2014, when he aggregated and standardized historic precinct-level election results for use by journalists and researchers for the OpenElections project. He is interested in how aspects of policing and the criminal legal system from past centuries appear as patterns in the fabric of life in the contemporary United States, developing tools and methods for strengthening collaborative practice in journalism, and exploring ways in which other creative disciplines can inform journalism. <\/p>\n
\u201cI’m excited to work with some of the most critical and rigorous journalists who cover the details of policing, immigration enforcement, courts and incarceration but who also show the connections with other systems,\u201d Hing said. \u201cI also appreciate the ways in which The Marshall Project seems to make its reporting widely accessible, whether it\u2019s in people’s inboxes or inside prisons and jails,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope to use data to examine the impacts to people and communities when things are newly criminalized or decriminalized,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hing is based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he enjoys trail running, mountain biking and visiting communities around the state. He officially joins The Marshall Project July 5, and can be found on Twitter at @geoffhing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n