I'm a scientist who loves learning new things about the world, including (but not limited to) basketball 🏀 and animals 🐒.
- 💼 Currently the Data Editor at 538 at ABC News (formerly known as FiveThirtyEight). Before that, I was a data science intern with the OKC Thunder (NBA).
- 👩🎓 I'm formally trained as an ecologist (Ph.D. at Columbia 🦁, B.S. x2 at UCLA 🐻). I studied the social behavior and antipredator responses of blue monkeys, yellow-bellied marmots, and skinks 🦎. My research focused largely on animal social networks and relationships 👯♀️.
- 📘 Most of my repositories are currently private as the work is being prepared for publication.
- ⚡ Fun fact: I lived in a rain forest for 15 months straight and somehow avoided getting malaria 🦟.
- Soni, P., & Fuong, H. (2023, February 10). The Super Bowl Halftime Shows With The Most Star Power: Meet MARIAH, our newest metric. FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-super-bowl-halftime-show-had-the-most-star-power/
- Fuong, H., & Paine, N. (2022, October 14). How We’re Improving Our NBA Forecast For 2022-23: It all comes down to who plays and how much. FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-were-improving-our-nba-forecast-for-2022-23/
- Rogers, K., Fuong, H., Mejía, E., Sweedler, M., & Matlin, C. (2022, July 11). Jan. 6's Tangled Web Of Extremism. FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/jan-6s-tangled-web-of-extremism/
- Thomson-DeVeaux, A., Fuong, H., & Mejía, E. (2022, April 18). It Can Already Take Weeks To Get An Abortion: And the Supreme Court could soon make it take even longer. FiveThirtyEight. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-can-already-take-weeks-to-get-an-abortion/
- Fuong, H. (2021). Social animals detecting danger: how social relations influence antipredator behavior in a noisy forest [Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University]. Dissertation
- Fuong, H., & Blumstein, D. T. (2019). Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls. Animal Behaviour, 154, 131-136. Article
- Blumstein, D. T., Fuong, H., & Palmer, E. (2017). Social security: social relationship strength and connectedness influence how marmots respond to alarm calls. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71, 145. Article
- Fuong, H., Maldonado-Chaparro, A., & Blumstein, D. T. (2015). Are social attributes associated with alarm calling propensity?. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 587-592. Article