Tejal Wakchoure
data and graphics reporter


Hi! I'm Tejal. I'm a data and graphics reporter at NBC Local. Previously, I managed newsroom products at The Baltimore Banner and studied a mishmash of journalism and computer science at Columbia, MIT and BITS Pilani. I speak three human and five beep-boop languages. More 👾


area chart showing iodine levels rising over time

Global iodine levels to reach record high by 2050, threatening ozone layer

Tracing the rise of iodine in the atmosphere and its impact on the delicate climate of the Arctic region.

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Domestic migration patterns across the country

Virginia sees an influx in state-to-state migration for the first time in four years

Exploring annual US domestic migration patterns using a scrolly map.

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Taylor Swift

New York, New York

A musical wordle of songs named after places in the city! Made entirely in JavaScript and Mapbox.

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Guinness-Bisseau President Embaló

Guinea-Bissau's latest coup attempt is only one of 10 since 2000

Only one elected president in Guinea-Bissau has ever completed a five-year term in office. An investigation into the country's history of political unrest, visualized in D3.js.

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black and white picture of a cast performing on stage

So you think you can Broadway?

A dive into what it takes to go on Broadway.

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scatterplot

A week of stories in LLMs

An exploration of stories published by multiple outlets over a week using large-language models and D3.js.

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superglue

SuperGlue

Built a computational journalism tool at MIT for nonverbal language analysis on broadcast news.

Some timelines of acquisition

How did Google acquire over 250 startups in the past 20 years?

A look at Google's Mergers & Acquisitions strategy across markets and timelines.

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a social network

Interpreting chat networks

A study on the community dynamics of internet forums. Mined data in Python, mapped it in Gephi and developed a web app in Python to interact with the results.

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Love Letter

User interface design and React.js implementation of a board game during the pandemic :)

map of violations

More than 19,000 buildings in New York have open fire code violations

Mapping fire code violations in the city.

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mortality chart

Six in 100 children still die in Sub-Saharan Africa

Visualizing World Bank data for child mortality rates.

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automation

Scrapers

Python scrapers to automate boring tasks.

Essex rental prices

In Vermont, short-term rental prices shoot to the top

Plotly and Illustrator graphic on the abrupt rise in short-term rental prices in Essex County, Vermont.

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babynames

Have you met someone named Kindle? Chances are, you will

A quick-and-dirty analysis in Python on the rise in 'Kindle' as a baby name.

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gs

Interface for flat SQL querying

A web and mobile interface for a flat SQL database querying tool in React.js.

mlcat

Mailing list analysis tool for community pattern detection

A parser that analyses structures and patterns in mailing list communication.

mobile site for the magazine

Nobelles

Concept for a magazine issue on women who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Layout in InDesign and components in Illustrator/Figma.

srccon-idea-board-zoomed

Ideas and more!

Ideas, designs, and visualizations.