About Christopher Ingraham
About The Why Axis
My name’s Christopher Ingraham. I wrote about all things data for the Washington Post for the past seven years. Prior to that I was a data visualization specialist for the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center. There’s a good chance you know me as the guy who inadvertently unleashed hundreds of crickets in his house.
I’m also author of the book If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now, the story of how an obscure USDA dataset led me on a journey to middle-of-nowhere, Minnesota, the place I now call home — along with my wife, three sons, two orange cats, one rescue dog, one smol rabbit, one spoiled bearded dragon, one tankful of promiscuous poison dart frogs, and several active colonies of live insects to keep the lizard and frogs’ bellies full.
I believe that data can be fun, and that some of the best ways to write and learn about it are hard to do in a traditional newsroom (that, incidentally, is part of why I left the Washington Post).