📝 I'm a data journalist and writer with a specialization in
data analysis, data visualization, and graphic design.
📈 Currently, I work as a Data-Driven Writer for Visual Capitalist, where I
collaborate with a team of designers and editors to create original, informative data visualizations and infographics, and write
data-driven articles to accompany them.
💼 Previously, I've worked as a data reporter with the Investigative Journalism Foundation,
a data journalist with the Local News Data Hub,
an intern at CBC's Investigative Unit, a reporter at J-Source, and a
communications assistant at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
📊 I'm passionate about distilling complex concepts into compelling stories with data and design.
💻 I'm available for freelance reporting and content writing assignments and can help you obtain, clean, analyze and visualize data.
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Check out some of my work here, or get to know me a bit more:
And here are some of my projects:
For this story, I calculated the approximate licencing rate of Airbnbs across nine major Canadian cities by
creating a custom dataset that includes the number of Airbnb listings and the number of active short-term rental
licences in each city.
I wrote about the various short-term rental regulations in each city, the impact of the proliferation of the
short-term rental industry on the long-term rental market, what's working and what's not working in regards
to regulation, and spoke to experts about how platforms and governments can work together together to ensure
higher licencing rates.
I liaised with city and provincial staff to acquire up-to-date short-term rental licencing data for each city – including sending
ATIP requests – and worked with non-profit advocacy group InsideAirbnb to acquire Canada-wide listings data for Airbnb.
I used Python to clean the listings and licencing data, and then used spreadsheets and QGIS to analyze the data.
For the CVCA, I analyzed Canadian and international venture debt deals data using Google Sheets.
Charts were created using Flourish. Venture debt data came from CVCA's proprietary deals database
as well as Pitchbook data.
In this story, I compared the rising trend of venture debt deals in Canada with international trends, spoke to venture capital leaders to identify the motivations behind the rising trends,
summarized key insights from the analysis and visualized the venture debt deals data
with interactive data visualizations.
