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Credentials
Education
- BFA (Graphic Design), Washington University in St. Louis, 2009
Publications
- Cited, “L.A. on the Record: The Gascón factor in the L.A. mayor’s race,” The Los Angeles Times (July 16, 2022)
- Co-author, “Do you live close enough to a small US airport to have lead exposure? Check our maps,” Quartz (June 16, 2022)
- David Yanofsky and Amanda Shendruk, “These charts lay bare the world’s massive vaccine equity gap,” Quartz (April 14, 2022)
- David Yanofsky, “How to make great charts,” Quartz (February 18, 2022)
- Co-author, “US airlines are planning to unnecessarily burn 20,000 tons of CO2 per day because of FAA rules,” Quartz (September, 24, 2021)
- David Yanofsky and Lila MacLellan, “Cameo shows even celebrity women value their labor less than men,” Quartz (June 16, 2021)
- Edited, “Fashion brands aren’t keeping their Instagram diversity promises,” Quartz (March 16, 2021)
- David Yanofsky and Quartz Staff, “Which S&P 500 companies are changing their political donation policies?” Quartz (January 15, 2021)
- David Yanofsky, “Here’s what we know is wrong with the PPP data,” Quartz (July 13, 2020)
- Featured, “Weekly Wrap: Hollywood Versus Georgia, AirPods, 737 Max Troubles And Summer Travel,” NPR's It’s Been a Minute (May 31, 2019)
- David Yanofsky, “How easy is it to find one patient among 1.3 million anonymized medical records?” Quartz (July 11, 2019)
- Cited, “Data Journalism and the Law,” A Tow/Knight Report, Tow Center for Digital Journalism (December 12, 2018)
- Featured, “Weekly Wrap: GM, Awaiting Asylum, Stock Market,” NPR's It’s Been a Minute (November 30, 2018)
- David Yanofsky and Akshat Rathi, “What Saudi Arabia’s 200 GW solar power plant would look like—if placed in your neighborhood,” Quartz (April 1, 2018)
- Featured, “What happens when you sue the federal government … and win,” American Public Media's Marketplace (April 6, 2018)
- David Yanofsky and Akshat Rathi, “Interactive: Can you get carbon emissions under control?” Quartz (December 14, 2017)
- David Yanofsky, “Airlines are price gouging in the path of Hurricane Irma—and algorithms are to blame,” Quartz (September 6, 2017)
- David Yanofsky, “Are a third of Venmo transactions right now illegal gambling payments?” Quartz (March 16, 2017)
- Featured, “What it’s like to sue the government for data,” American Public Media's Marketplace (May 28, 2016)
- Featured, The Best American Infographics 2015, Mariner Books
- Featured, “FAA Ban Hasn’t Stopped Pilots from Snapping Selfies,” NPR's All Things Considered (February 5, 2015)
- Featured, “Should pilots filter their Instagramming habits?” CBS Saturday Morning (December 13, 2014)
- David Yanofsky, “The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the air,” Quartz (December 11, 2014)
- Featured, “How to Make $1 billion” WNYC's The Takeaway (December 17, 2013)
- Co-author, “Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking Organic Cotton,” Bloomberg (December 15, 2011)
- Co-author, “The Fed’s Secret Liquidity Lifelines,” Bloomberg (August, 21, 2011)
Presentations
- Panelist, “How to Know If You Are Capturing Clean Data: Assessing Quality, Accuracy, Consistency and Relevance, ” ACI’s Practical Guide to FCPA Data Analytics (November 28, 2023)
- Speaker, “Bringing accountability to your organization with bots,” News Product Alliance Summit (March 10, 2022)
- Moderator, “Democratizing access to Earth Observation Data,” Geospatial World Forum (April 3, 2019)
- Moderator, “Drop Everything and Work on Artificial Intelligence?” Foresight Institute Great Debates (November 10, 2016)
- Presenter, “The Charting Monster that Spawned from the Jaws of Defeat,” OpenVis Conference (April 26, 2016)