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Ben Wellington

Creator
I QUANT NY

Asistant Professor
City And Regional Planning, School of Architecture
The Pratt Institute

Ben Wellington is the creator of I Quant NY, a data science and policy blog that focuses on insights drawn from New York City’s public data, and advocates for the expansion and improvement of that data. His data science has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure, the training of police officers, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines.

Ben is a contributor to the New Yorker, and a visiting assistant professor in the City & Regional Planning program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where he teaches statistics using urban open data. He also works as a quantitative analyst at the investment management firm Two Sigma, where he helped start the firm’s Data Clinic, a pro bono data analysis program that works with non-profits to harness the power of their own data. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University.

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NEH grant, A Cultural History of Digital Technology is an eighteen-month interdisciplinary faculty development project designed to equip faculty from both STEM and humanities disciplines with an understanding of the cultural, historical, and philosophical dimensions of three major contemporary technologies that are focal points in our curriculum: Geospatial Technology, Digital Fabrication and Robotics.

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A Cultural History of Digital Technology