Hello everyone, I'm Mona Chalabi from FiveThirtyEight, and I analyse
data on pubes and politics. Ask Me Anything!
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Hello everyone, I’m Mona Chalabi, a data journalist at FiveThirtyEight
and I work with NPR to produce the Number Of The Week. I try to think
about data in areas where other people don’t – things like what
percentage of people pee in the shower, how many Americans are married
to their cousins and (of course) how often people men and women
masturbate. I’m interested in more sober topics too. Most recently, I
worked on FiveThirtyEight’s coverage of the UK election by profiling
statistical outliers across the country. And I’m in London right now to
work on a BBC documentary about the prevalence of racism in the UK. I
used to work for the Guardian’s Data team in London and before that I
got into data through working at the Bank of England, then the Economist
Intelligence Unit and the International Organisation for Migration.
Here’s proof that it’s me. I’ll be back at 1 PM ET to answer your
questions. Ask me anything! (Seriously, our readers do each week, so
should you!) I’M HERE NOW TO READ YOUR WEIRD AND WONDERFUL QUESTIONS AND
DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM UPDATE: 30 MINS LEFT. KEEP THE QUESTIONS
COMING! UPDATE: My times up - I’d like to stay but the probability of me
making typos/talking nonsense goes up exponentially with every passing
minute. I’m so sorry I couldn’t answer all of your brilliant questions
but please do get in touch with me by email
(
[email protected]) or on Twitter (@MonaChalabi) and I’ll
do my best to reply. Hope the numbers are helping! xx