Projects and Publications

• Once upon a time, we had the best conference ever. NormConf happened, and lives forever (or as close to it as possible) in our hearts and on YouTube. I gave a Lightning Talk called Minimizing the Cost Function in Data Projects (or, Keep it Simple, Stupid).

• In the early days of Dockless Bikeshare in Washington, DC, I did work that helped inform the decision making process for whether to continue the pilot, starting from some high-level policy questions and some data that no one had ever really worked with before.

• Partnering with an immigration law non-profit, I’ve done a few projects in support of their work (both for public consumption and for use in their legal work), including:

  • Scraping and visualizing USCIS data on DACA recipients
  • Building and analyzing datasets to obtain a deeper understanding of the demographics of the refugees from countries affected by various shifting immigration policies.

• During my time working in computational geophysics, I had the opportunity to author/coauthor a number of scientific publications. One particularly nice example of cutting-edge work my colleagues and I did on reservoir saturation prediction was this Barents Sea Case Study. Check out Google Scholar for a full bibliography.

• Data invades my hobbies, too. With a friend, I created Wearing Wiki, a reference site for babywearing techniques using woven wraps. The Wearing Wiki improved the accessibility of this instructional information for caregivers of all body types and abilities.