I am a master’s student in library and information science at UW where I focus on data management, curation, and visualization. My undergraduate background is in environmental science, and before starting the MLIS program I worked as a data manager on research projects dealing with lake ecology and climate change. I’m excited to approach research with a more explicitly human-centered perspective this summer.

As a DSSG fellow I’ll be working on the project “Mining Online Data for Early Identification of Unsafe Food Products”. I’m really looking forward to learning more about text mining and branching out from R, which I’ve used happily for several years, to Python. Thanks to the tutorials of last week I’m already successfully writing Python code. I also hope to contribute some interactive visualizations to our project.