Anthony DeBarros

I was born into a Portuguese-Italian family just north of New York City. Early on, I found a love for books, music, and writing and, after I bought my first computer, I found out that I really liked working with hardware and software too. I've been fortunate to combine all those interests as a data journalist.

For more than two decades, I’ve combed through spreadsheets, built databases, scraped websites and sorted numbers to find news in data. For the past 7.5 years (yup, I do count things), I’ve worked at The Wall Street Journal, where I collaborate with reporters covering elections, money in politics, the economy and demographics.

My book, Practical SQL: A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling with Data, teaches basic-to-advanced SQL plus data analysis techniques I’ve learned—sometimes the hard way. Thanks to my publisher, No Starch Press, we’re on a second edition with translations in Korean, traditional Chinese and Polish.

I’ve been a team leader, product manager and data journalist for USA Today, Questex, the Poughkeepsie Journal, and DocumentCloud. I also flipped burgers at McDonald's and did a stint as a DJ on a rock music station.

One of my projects won a Silver Baton from the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Here's a list of honors.

Want to get in touch? Please see the Get Help page on my book website.

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