User:TellsDataStories

Hi, I'm TellsDataStories! I'm a 30-something who loves data!

I'm a part of Team CarbondaleDataJournalism! Collectively Team CarbondaleDataJournalism is writing articles about Carbondale and the surrounding area. Our priorities include:

• agriculture and land usage
• property sales and the transitioning of ownership in our community
• healthcare and our response to the opioid epidemic

On a personal level, I went to school for journalism, however I got exposed to the data journalism side of journalism. Nothing fancy, no ML/AI data sciency stuff but enough data wrangling experience that I don't back down from any dataset.

My toolbox:

• QGIS for spatial analysis
• Alteryx - I use it in my job and that carries over to my Tyche work - a great tool for building data flows/workflows
• Google sheets
• Python - trying to get better at this, focusing on NumPy now

I'm a superhero at FOILs & FOIAs, however they're known in your parts. Ask me questions!

On my data storytelling wishlist...

• Finance Decoders for the 6 counties that surround my community
• getting better suboxone delivery data from the state so that we can storytell its availability
• creating a Sankey diagram for my city's budget