Joshua Metcalf
New York, NY · (781) 434-9432 · joshua.metcalf234@gmail.com
joshmetcalf.xyz · linkedin.com/in/josh-metcalf · github.com/21metcalfj
Education
Santa Clara UniversitySanta Clara, CA
B.S., Political Science; Minor, FrenchJune 2025
GPA 3.79 · Magna Cum Laude · National Political Science Honor Society
Experience
VoteHub — Geospatial Data LeadJan 2025 – Present
- Source, digitize, and repair voting precinct boundaries nationwide, and maintain the boundary datasets behind every map VoteHub publishes.
- Led the project that produced the first maximally complete precinct-level map of the 2024 presidential election.
- Wrote the parsers that pull precinct results out of county election PDFs across Dominion, ES&S, Hart, and other vendor systems.
- Built the crosswalking tool that matches those results to boundary files, flagging the cases automated matching cannot resolve for human review.
- Maintain the national dataset they feed: 12.3 million precinct-level results going back to 2016. Portions are licensed to commercial and media clients.
- Contribute to the data pipelines behind VoteHub’s live election-night reporting, which drives the precinct maps used in CBS News election night coverage.
- Write election analysis for publication, including “Just how different will the House look in 2026?” (November 2025).
The New York Times — Independent Contractor, Election AnalyticsAug 2025 – Dec 2025
- Researched and assembled precinct boundaries, crosswalked to results, for the Times’ “Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election.”
StateNavigate — GIS ContractorDec 2024 – Present
- Build and verify the spatial data behind state-legislative forecasting. Draw poll samples from the L2 voter file, field the surveys, and process results as they arrive.
The States Project — Independent ContractorMar 2025 – Jul 2025
- Collected and analyzed 2024 precinct-level results supporting state-legislative analysis.
MassINC Polling Group — Research AssociateFeb 2026 – May 2026
- Processed and validated high-volume survey data for an MBTA-contracted study of passenger travel behavior.
Reservoir Strategies — InternJun 2024 – Aug 2024
- Built donor prospect lists from FEC and Rhode Island Board of Elections data for congressional and state-party clients.
Work used by
CBS News · Dave's Redistricting App · The Downballot · Portland Press Herald · KXAN Austin
Skills
Geospatial: QGIS · ArcGIS · GeoPandas · Shapely · maup · shapefile / GeoPackage / GeoJSON
Data & languages: Python (pandas, NumPy) · SQL/SQLite · R · JavaScript · Excel · VAN
Josh Metcalf