Hazel Gandhi*

Hi! I'm Hazel Gandhi, a Data Reporting Fellow at Rest of World based in New York City. I’m passionate about using data to tell compelling stories, a focus that drives my work at Rest of World, where I help integrate data into our coverage of global technology. You can explore some of my published work and projects from Columbia Journalism School below.

PROJECTS

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REST OF WORLD: WE MAPPED THE WORLD'S HOTTEST DATA CENTERS

In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

QGIS Geopandas Adobe Illustrator Responsive Design Python/Pandas
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COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW: GET NOTED

X has given users the power of crowd-sourced fact-checking, and here's how it's going.

Python/Pandas matplotlib

REST OF WORLD: GLOBAL SPACEPORTS

A story I published with Rest of World about Oman's growing space infrastructure

JavaScript D3.JS Python
Child Care NY

CHILD CARE ACCESS UNDER THREAT IN NY

Parents in New York relied heavily on vouchers to pay for child care. Those funds are running out.

QGIS Responsive Design ai2html Datawrapper

NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL PRIMARY MAP

Where were Cuomo and Mamdani's fights the closest?

QGIS
Formula 1 Penalties

FORMULA ONE DRIVERS ARE PAYING MORE FINES THAN EVER

Drivers are complaining that the fines are unnecessary. The FIA says it has valid reasons for imposing them.

Playwright Complex PDF Scraping Scrollytelling Adobe Illustrator Python/Pandas
French Open

PREDICTING THE 2025 FRENCH OPEN

Using a logistic regression to predict who will win the men's singles title at Roland Garros.

R-Statistics
Analyzing Hinge Data

WHAT MY FRIENDS' HINGE DATA SAYS ABOUT THEM

I crowdsourced Hinge data from 4 women and 4 men, and here's what I found.

Python/Pandas Responsive Design ai2html Datawrapper
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RETRACTIONS IN ACADEMIC STUDIES RISE AS CRACKDOWN BEGINS ON PAPER MILLS

Paper mills, known for publishing fraudulent or low-quality studies, have seen an increasing number of retractions since 2023.

Ggplot Python/Pandas
Auto-updating AQI Map

AUTO-UPDATING AQI MAP

A project that dynamically updates India's air quality information.

Img2Table Python/Pandas Datawrapper

PUBLISHED WORK

Courier Newsroom

COURIER NEWSROOM SPENT BIG ON A META AD BLITZ

The $6 million–plus the progressive 'newsroom' spent on Meta lagged only the official Trump and Harris campaigns.

Facebook Ad Library Analysis Election 2024
Inwood Hill Park

ARTIFICIAL TURF BATTLE EMERGES IN INWOOD HILL PARK

Residents contend that the park's natural beauty is being destroyed by the construction of an artificial-turf soccer field.

Local Reporting
East Harlem Asthma

CHILDHOOD ASTHMA WORSENS IN EAST HARLEM

Parents of children with asthma in New York are on notice; the cold can be a trigger.

Local Reporting Healthcare