Nora Gully
Nora Gully
I build things that help people understand data and stories. After a decade in documentary film — managing 50-year archives, delivering award-winning films to international festivals — and several years shipping production software at Occipital and Mondo Robot, I'm now at the intersection of machine learning, NLP, and investigative journalism.
I'm currently taking graduate-level Machine Learning (CSCI 4622) and Natural Language Processing (LING 3832) at the University of Colorado, where I'm working on an AI interpretability research project. I'm seeking roles where engineering and storytelling meet: newsroom AI, data journalism, and tools that make complex information legible.
Selected Work
Netflix Data Story
2024An exploration of Netflix's 'What We're Watching' Data from 2023.
Shot Spotter
2024Data-driven investigation of Chicago Police's use of a controversial technology
Higher Education Funding Data
2024A look at how the state of Colorado funds its public universities
Does Seeing Help Models Think in Space?
2026Behavioral interpretability study using probing classifiers to test whether CLIP's visually grounded text embeddings encode spatial relations better than Sentence-BERT — and which relation types benefit.
Work Experience
Tools & Tech
Machine Learning & NLP
Data Analysis & Visualization
Creative & Engineering
Human Languages
Education
Recent Coursework
Contact
Location
Denver/Boulder, CO
GitHub
github.com/nogully
My cat Jojo