I’m a huge fan of open data. I am especially fascinated by data related to transportation and urbanism, anyhting that I can put on a map that would represent some part of how we move and live in cities. That is why I was super excited to find that New York City collects and shares data on pedestrian counts in more than 100 locations across the city. However, the CSV dataset I downloaded needed a lot of love and care -in the form of wrangling- before it reached tidy formatting that could allow me to easily explore it by plotting it in maps and charts. Read more

This project analyses data released by DonorsChoose.org for their mid-2018 Kaggle competition. The dataset consists of 6 tables containing information on more than 4 million donations, and was analyzed using R. In this writeup, I set out to summarize a few key insights regarding their fundrasing performance between 2013 and 2017. For a more comprehensive approach, the full code of my ongoing exploration of the dataset can be found here. Read more