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Carl Bialik | |
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| Born | 10 September 1979 |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupations | Journalist, Editor, Executive, Data scientist |
| Employer(s) | YouGov, The Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight |
| Known for | Research on US politics |
Carl Bialik (10 September 1979 – ) is an American journalist and YouGov America's vice president of data science and U.S. politics editor.
Bialik is also known for his work for The Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, andYelpblog.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Bialik is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science as valedictorian. He is a New York City native.[3]
Bialik graduated with a Bachelors in mathematics and physics from Yale University. He initially became a freelance journalist before working at the Wall Street Journal.[4]
At the Wall Street Journal, Bialik was the creator and writer of the weekly Numbers Guy[5] column, about the use and (particularly) misuse of numbers and statistics in the news and advocacy.[4] It launched in 2005.
He was also the co-writer on the Journal's blog-like Daily Fix column, which billed itself as "a daily look at the best sportswriting on the Web."
His regular column at Gelf, which skewed toward a meta-journalism focus, was Blurb Racket, which pulled back the curtains on the critic quotes in movie and book advertisements, mainly by comparing them directly with the reviews they come from.
He is also the host of the tennis podcast "Thirty Love," in which he interviews various figures from the world of professional tennis including players, coaches, executives, and journalists. Bialik is also a recurring guest on the data-driven tennis podcast, "The Tennis Abstract Podcast." In 2013, Bialik was hired by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com.[6] At FiveThirtyEight, Bialik wrote on a wide range of subjects, ranging from politics to economics to crime and to sports.[7]
He has also written for The Monitor (Uganda), Media Life Magazine, Yale Alumni Magazine, Arabies Trends, Sports Illustrated, The Yale Herald, Yale Scientific Magazine, CareerBuilder, and Student.com, and has published 5 scientific papers as of 2013[update].[8][9]
In 2017 he was named data science editor of Yelp, working on Yelpblog.[1][2][10]
In 2021, Bialik became the vice president of data science and U.S. politics editor of YouGov America. He published his first article and survey on the YouGov site in September 2021.[11] At YouGov, Bialik has conducted a large number of surveys in collaboration with larger research studies.[12][13]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Blog, Yelp-Official. "Yelp - Official Blog | News, Businesses, Community & Life at Yelp". Yelp - Official Blog. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- 1 2 Brooks, Travis. "Carl Bialik Joins Yelp as New Data Science Editor". Yelp. Archived from the original on February 7, 2017.
- ↑ Vanderkam, Laura (22 December 2008). "Carl Bialik: Striking a Blow for Mathematical Accuracy in the Media". Scientific American. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Carl Bialik - WSJ". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ "The Numbers - News, Articles, Biography, Photos". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Yu, Roger. "Silver's FiveThirtyEight beefs up staffing". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ "MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Speaker | Carl Bialik". Sloan Sports Conference. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ "Carl Bialik". Archived from the original on 22 January 2013.
- ↑ "Carl Bialik". Muck Rack | For journalists and public relations. 2026-01-13. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Roush, Chris (2017-02-06). "Bialik, former WSJ's "Numbers Guy" columnist, joins Yelp". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Sanders, Linley; Bialik, Carl; Bailey, Delia. "Which states would want to outlaw abortion if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade?". YouGov America. Retrieved 2026-09-20.
- ↑ Jessee, Stephen; Malhotra, Neil; Sen, Maya (2026-03-01). "Is the Supreme Court veering rightward? The ebb and flow of representation". PNAS Nexus. 5 (3) pgag060. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag060. ISSN 2752-6542. PMC 12997527. PMID 41858744.
- ↑ Bail, Chris (2021). Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing. Princeton University Press.
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