Hacking at Air Pollution Through Data Visualization

Having unfortunately elected to take a cruise to the Bahamas last December (ok I’ll admit, probably not the most accurate use of the word “unfortunately”), I missed last year’s annual TheLadders Hackathon, and thus last Saturday marked my first time participating in this kind of event. I was glad to get the W, but even more so to learn a great deal, meet a bunch of great people (especially my teammates Greg and Freddie), and finally see what all this “hackathon fuss” was about. Many thanks must go as well to Matt Turck and Shivon Zilis of Bloomberg for providing the impressive venue and supporting the NYC arm of this global competition. Though this was my first hackathon, it certainly won’t be my last!

Noah Goldenberg is “The Data Guy” (aka Research Analyst) at TheLadders. He’s a New Jersey native, but also spent time as a Virginian and occasionally still says “y’all”. When he’s not wrangling data or winning hackathons, he likes to take it easy and run marathons.

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