Hi, my name is C.J. Robinson.


I'm a student at the Columbia Journalism School pursuing an M.S. in Data Journalism.

Previously, I worked as a product analyst at the New York Times Games team working with user data to understand what makes games more engaging, and as a data scientist at Expedia building custom R packages.


Find my resume here.
My eyes are usually closed in pictures
Or sometimes the picture is out of focus

Data Stories

Chronic Absenteeism Remains High in Harlem Elementary Schools

Over half of Harlem elementary schoolers are chronically absent, which can imperil students' futures.

Story picked up by Associated Press Newswire from Columbia News Service.

Graphics in Datawrapper and analyzed in R

I'll take AWKWARD SILENCE for $800

Why are Jeopardy contestants getting stumped more often?

A scrollytelling story built with ggplot and Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, using data scraped with BeautifulSoup
GitHub

Citi Bike or City Hike? Mapping NYC's Most Unreliable Stations

Even the most popular stations fail to serve riders at peak times.

Data scraped using GitHub actions and Python from Citi Bike real-time API over three months and analyzed in R/ggplot
GitHub

New York City evictions surged in 2024 despite new tenant protections

Data story examining the 2024 increase in NYC evictions in spite of new tenant protection laws

Graphics built in Datawrapper and analyzed in Python/pandas
GitHub

Know what Trump is going to do next? Willing to bet on it?

An analysis of how accurate predicting political events can be in the age of Donald Trump

Graphics made in Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, scraped using the Polymarket API in Python and analyzed/visualized in R
GitHub

The Increase in New York City Evictions, In One Chart

Replicating NYT's election peak charts to examine neighrborhood-level increases in evictions
GitHub

The Great American Coffee Survey

Ever wonder what Americans think of artisanal coffee?

Exploratory data analysis using R/ggplot
GitHub

Mr. Trash Wheel

Society makes a lot of trash. Anthropomorphizing might help.

Scrollytelling story built in Svelte
GitHub

Other work

Overdose Prevention Centers Generate Hostility in East Harlem, Muted Response in Washington Heights

In the three years since OnPoint NYC opened safe injection sites, why did its clinic in East Harlem become the center of controversy?

Enterprise non-data story based on extensive interviews with residents and leaders in Upper Manhattan

OATH Dashboard

Flask app to explore data from the Office of Administration Trials and Hearings (OATH) pulled from NYC Open Data.
GitHub

Popular Guitar Songs Scraper

Using Playwright and requests to scrape the most popular songs on www.ultimate-guitar.com, including artist country data for interactive mapping.
GitHub

New York Times: Unwinding Wordle: Accelerating Your Solve

Working with our Games desk, I contributed research and data analysis to a guide to Wordle strategy

How the New York Times Games Data Team Revamped Its Reporting

A preview into the work I did at the New York Times Games team, including building a new data pipeline and dashboard suite.