I'm a scientist who loves learning new things about the world, including (but not limited to) basketball 🏀 and animals 🐒.

• 💼 I was 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 🦟.

• Morris, G.E., Marriner, K., Brown, A., Bycoffe, A., et al. (Edited by Fuong, H., et al.) (Last updated 2024, November 5). Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election? FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/. [Archived]
• Brown, A., Marriner, K., Bycoffe, A., & Morris, G.E. (Edited by Fuong, H., Yang, T., & Burton, C.) (2024, September 9). Explore The Ways Trump Or Harris Could Win The 2024 Election. FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-harris-2024-election-map/. [Archived]
• Yang, T., Burton, C., Radcliffe, M., Marriner, K., & Brown, A. (Edited by Rogers, K., Fuong, H., & Li, I.) (2024, May 1). The 8 Types Of Democrats And Republicans In The House. FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/types-democrats-republicans-house-2024/. [Archived]
• 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/. [Archived]
• 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/. [Archived]
• 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/. [Archived]
• 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/. [Archived]

• 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