Richard A. Abbey

A data journalist with words in Bloomberg. A 2022 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow. Graduate of Columbia Journalism School with an Msc in Data Journalism. Strong interest in data science and machine learning.

Below are some of my selected works


Corporate Boards Are Getting Younger

The Great Resignation. The Big Quit. The Great Reshuffle. Call it what you want but a spate of early retirements brought on by the pandemic helped make corporate boards younger

NYC Employers’ Solution to Pay Transparency

Employers are testing the limits of a new city law requiring salary ranges on job ads by posting pay bands that,in some cases, span more than $100,000.

Mapping communities exposed to wildfire risks

The Wildfire Risk to Communities provides resources that help communities explore wildfire risks.

Recreating a map of counties' dominant economic activity

This project scraped Ghana's Parliament website for tax waivers since 2013.

Central Africa remains dark despite vast energy potential

This uses Natural Earth projection on Mapbox to visualize electricty supply accross the globe.

Weather and climate disasters cost over $2.2tn

The U.S. has sustained 332 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs of each reached or exceeded $1 billion.

Ghana's parliament looking to halt costly tax exemptions regime

This project scraped Ghana's Parliament website for tax waivers since 2013.

NYC's most popular illegal pets

This project is about complaints against illegal pets in NYC. The story analysed 311 data to arrive at its findings.

Mapping communities exposed to wildfire risks

The Wildfire Risk to Communities provides resources that help communities explore wildfire risks.