Project name: CEPALSTAT Environmental Data Upload What it does: pulls environmental data from multiple sources for LAC countries and pipes them to CEPALSTAT Purpose/Why: updated environmental indicators in CEPALSTAT, the LAC regional data hub What it accomplished: automated the download, cleaning, methods, and upload of the 90+ environmental indicators in the CEPALSTAT site Skills/tech: (R, data pipelines, modular programming, quality checks etc.) GitHub link: https://github.com/alexisathens/cepalstat-data-upload

medicaid-forecasting

Project name: Medicaid Enrollment Forecasts What it does: forecast Medicaid enrollment considering historical trends and economic and demographic projections Purpose/Why: forecasts were used to earmark the appropriate amount of Medicaid funding in the Utah state budget What it accomplished: developed high-accuracy enrollment projections for different demographic groups of Utahns Skills/tech: (R, time series forecasting, economic modeling, variable selection, mass model deployment) GitHub link: https://github.com/alexisathens/medicaid-forecasting

reading-around-the-world

Project name: Reading Around the World What it does: generates a colored world map based on reading history Purpose/Why: fun project to visualize global coverage of the authors I've read What it accomplished: cleans Goodreads reading history, scrapes Wikipedia for author home country, colors world map based on count of books from each country Skills/tech: (R, web scraping, spatial data, data visualization, etc.) GitHub link: https://github.com/alexisathens/reading-around-the-world

pkids-district-templates

Project name: Project KIDS What it does: integrates public education spending, demographics, and operational data Purpose/Why: to assess educational spending from a ROI lens by drilling each public education dollar spent to the student level What it accomplished: created the first-ever lens to analyze education investments and their relation to student achievement at scale Skills/tech: (R, data pipelines, methodological development, fuzzy matching, etc.) GitHub link: https://github.com/alexisathens/pkids-district-templates