Eric Goldwein, MPH
Hi, I'm Eric — a former journalist and nonprofit director turned data consultant. I started 320 Consulting to help small teams and mission-driven organizations use their data more clearly, effectively, and creatively.
Over the past 15 years, I've worked across health, journalism, and tech — building custom websites, interactive tools, and narrative content that make complex issues easier to understand. My work spans nursing home data, youth concussion safety, and race-day calculators for runners.
I've been published in The Washington Post, Slate, ESPN, and The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. These days, I'm also exploring how AI can make this work smarter, faster, and more accessible.
Below are highlights of my presentations, publications, and projects.
Alumni Make Data Shine with Public Health Dashboards
Columbia University Public Health (2025)
PBJ Dashboard featured in an article about using technology and AI to make public data more accessible and advance public health.
ReadWhy Nursing Home Staffing Data Matters
Positive Aging Community (2025)
Led program detailing how staffing data impacts 1.2 million residents and how consumers can use PBJ data to advocate for loved ones and push for better policy.
Watch programData-driven storytelling session
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (2025)
Led session on data-driven storytelling for NASHIA - Leading Practices Academy.
Presentations on nursing home staffing and enforcement
LTCCC (2019-2024)
Presented on nursing home staffing and enforcement at national and state conferences, including: National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (NAMFCU), National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, American Society on Aging (ASA), New York State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program (LTCOP) Conference
PBJ Dashboard
A dashboard for exploring public nursing home staffing data trends across 15,000 facilities. Built for attorneys and researchers, it offers free access to staffing trends and basic facility info. Custom dashboards and reports available by request.
Visit SiteNBA Heave Report
A comprehensive database tracking every NBA heave and halfcourt shot since 2003. Interactive tool using shot location data and visualizations to explore heave attempts, makes, and shooting patterns for every NBA player and team across multiple seasons.
Visit SiteDaisy320
An AI-powered satire of fitness and tech culture that blends surreal historical fiction, VDOT-based pace tools, and a 140-year-old talking horse: Coach DAISY™. A sandbox for building tools that are smart, creative, data-driven, and occasionally helpful.
Visit SiteSeba Calisthenics
A personal website (en español) for a Buenos Aires-based calisthenics trainer and massage therapist. Built to help grow his client base by showcasing outdoor calisthenics sessions, massage services, and a holistic wellness approach.
Visit SiteTheWordGrandma
A digital home for the late Dr. Phyllis Mindell's work on language, leadership, and communication. Part archive, part revival, part tribute. Features essays, tips, and curated materials helping people write and speak with clarity and confidence.
Visit SiteNBAassets
A database that catalogued every NBA team's players and draft picks, including detailed contract information and asset information. Focused on long-term value and team-building strategy. No longer active, but the archive is still available.
View ArchiveHoop76
Data-driven ESPN-affiliated blog that covered one of the worst, yet most fascinating teams in pro sports history: the Philadelphia 76ers. Hoop76 had 600,000 pageviews from 180,000 users. Articles were routinely linked by national publications.
View ArchiveLong-Term Care & Aging
- Medical director presence and time in U.S. nursing homes, 2017–2023(JAGS)
- Crunching the Nursing Home Data(Aging in America News)
- The Other 3,000 Days at Seagate(The 320)
- You don’t need a spreadsheet to know we’re failing nursing home residents(Aging in America News)
- 'I'm trapped. I'm locked down. And I feel like I'm in prison.': An oral history of COVID-19 in nursing homes(LTCCC)
- Fake News, Digital Inequality, and the Aging Population(Columbia Thesis, Mailman School of Public Health)
- Data Viz: Antipsychotic Drugging in Nursing Homes(LTCCC)
Health & Athletics
- Schools are trying to curb obesity. Why are their sports leagues promoting Wendy's and Pepsi?(Washington Post)
- Why the NCAA doesn't care about concussions(Slate)
- On the limitations of high school football concussion data(Washington Post)
- On retired NFL star William 'The Refrigerator' Perry's downward health spiral(Washington Post)
- Shaken Up On the Play: The semantic loopholes that allow the NFL to survive its concussion crisis(Slate)
- For high schools seeking new athletic fields, is the plastic grass greener on the other side?(Washington Post)
Sports & Society
- High school rifle teams stay the course as gun debate rages on(Washington Post)
- Why a Maryland high school football team took a knee on the state champion's home field(Washington Post)
- That time NBA legend John Lucas joined transgender tennis star Renee Richards to make the most fascinating mixed doubles team in tennis history(ESPN)
- Why this field in Khayelitsha, South Africa, is so special(ThePostGame)
- How society learned to accept dunking doughnuts – and basketballs(Slate)
- Terps legend. 'Coach Walt.' 'Dad.'(Washington Post)
Basketball Analytics
- How analytics can resolve B-List issues like the age restricting and prevent future lockouts(ESPN)
- Why an undefeated basketball team should trade all its average players and start losing(ESPN)
- 76ers season could have silver lining(WHYY)
- 76ers game plan misses shot at high draft pick(WHYY)
- What does an NBA team do when its games don't count? Experiment.(ESPN)