Benjamin Wellington
Visiting Assistant Professor Grad Center for Planning bwelling@pratt.edu 718.399-.4340 p Brooklyn Campus, Higgins Hall North 2
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Education
Ph.D. from New York University
B.S. from Bucknell University
Biography
Ben Wellington received a Ph.D. from New York University, where he applied statistical techniques in the field of machine translation. He has dedicated his academic and professional time to studying large data-sets, an increasingly important skill for planners entering the profession. He has extensive real-world experience in both the analysis of data, and also the presentation of it. His technical background allows him to collect real-world examples from government open data initiatives, and turn them into interesting and relevant assignments for his students.