As Data Consultant at the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI; Northeastern & Harvard), May 2023–February 2025, I helped civic partners put the City of Boston’s open data to use — community organizers, the City itself, and the Boston Children’s Museum — aiding their data initiatives and building their capacity to do the analysis themselves. Alongside the consultations I maintained data pipelines and interactive ArcGIS maps, and mentored students from high school to master’s level on data management and analysis. (The community-building side of this work is under Service.)
Published datasets
Two pieces of civic data infrastructure I first-authored, both on the BARI Dataverse:
- Geographical Infrastructure for the City of Boston v.2023 — with Dave Hatten, Michael Zoorob, Alina Ristea, Saina Sheini, and Daniel T. O’Brien. A database that organizes and links the places of Boston across 17 nested levels, from land parcels and streets to census geographies and administrative regions — the backbone researchers use to join city data across scales.
- 2020 Census Geographies — with Daniel T. O’Brien. The City of Boston’s 2020 census geographies, cleaned and prepared for research use.