Aida Ylanan is a data journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She first joined the paper as an intern at the Data Desk, where she updated a widely used newsroom tool and published a visual analysis of NYRB book covers. A lifelong news junkie, she graduated in 2018 from UCLA, where she studied statistics and English.
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