cmd-022. a data analysis and presentation on targeting voters in a political campaign.
PROJECT COMPLETED: August 2021
Florida Congressional District 27 Voter Targets | Data Visualization by David White
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
I completed the Arena Academy in June 2021. Arena Academy is a bootcamp-like training program for aspiring political campaign professionals. The program provides immersive, hands-on training in seven different tracks: Campaign Manager, Communications Director, Data Director, Digital Director, Finance Director, Organizer, or Organizing Director. I completed the Data Director track.
As a capstone project, the participants are divided into teams comprised of one member from each of the seven tracks. The team is tasked with designing a winning strategy and presenting their campaign plan to a panel of expert judges. Our team was assigned a hypothetical challenger, running against against a real-world incumbent in Florida’s 27th Congressional District. I used simulated VAN voter file data to help develop our team’s finance, organizing, voter registration and turnout goals. For our final presentation, I created a data dashboard that illustrated our voter targeting strategy. (Following Arena Academy, I made further revisions to my dashboard based on the feedback our team received from the panel of judges.)
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Final Results:
cmd-017. a suite of online dashboards that give all members of an organization access to actionable information.
PROJECT COMPLETED: February 2020
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
Stakeholder’s Problem: “We need a way to quickly compile, analyze and report on our school’s data.”
Harlem Link Charter School is a tuition-free, independent charter school located in New York City. It serves 450 children in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5. Harlem Link is committed to equitable programming, inclusiveness and serving all children in its community (Harlem and Washington Heights).
At Harlem Link, students take a series of assessments throughout the school year to monitor their academic progress. The assessments produce a large volume of data that needs to be collected, crunched and reported on within a short window of time. In order to meet that challenge, I took the following steps:
Final Results:
—HARLEM LINK DATA SUITE: ACADEMICS—
cmd-016. a data report that provides insight into the results of a recent survey.
PROJECT COMPLETED: December 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
Stakeholder’s Problem: “We need a way to understand the results of our survey and communicate the insights we’ve gained.”
Harlem Link Charter School is a tuition-free, independent charter school located in New York City. It serves 450 children in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5. Harlem Link is committed to equitable programming, inclusiveness and serving all children in its community (Harlem and Washington Heights).
At Harlem Link, teachers fill out a detailed survey twice a year that assesses each of their students on several measures of their social and emotional learning. The surveys produce a large volume of data that needs to be collected, crunched and reported on within a short window of time. In order to meet that challenge, I took the following steps:
Final Results:
cmd-015. cloud-based data reports that put timely information at your fingertips.
PROJECT COMPLETED: October 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
Stakeholder’s Problem: “We need a way to connect the data we have stored in various locations and assemble all of it into a usable form.”
Harlem Link Charter School is a tuition-free, independent charter school located in New York City. It serves 450 children in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 5. Harlem Link is committed to equitable programming, inclusiveness and serving all children in its community (Harlem and Washington Heights).
The school’s normal daily operations produce a large volume of data that needs to be collected, crunched and reported on in real time. In order to meet that challenge, I took the following steps:
Final Results:
—HARLEM LINK DATA SUITE: OPERATIONS—
cmd-013. an interactive data visualization that communicates the results of a survey.
PROJECT COMPLETED: October 2020
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
Client’s Problem: “I recently completed a survey and now I need a way to analyze the results and share them with my audience.”
Jazzfuel.com is a professional development platform and online community that supports jazz artists in booking live performances, releasing recordings and promoting their work through traditional and social media.
In the fall of 2020, Matt Fripp, founder of jazzfuel.com, conducted a survey of the readers of his weekly newsletter to assess how the pandemic had impacted their livelihoods. He needed an analysis of the survey results and a user-friendly way to share that information. To solve these two problems, I designed and built an online interactive data visualization that communicated the findings of his survey.
Work Process:
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Final Results:
cmd-001. an online data dashboard for a nonprofit board of trustees.
PROJECT COMPLETED: February 2017
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
STAKEHOLDER’S PROBLEM: “We need an easy way to monitor progress and ensure accountability within our organization.”
Global Community Charter School (GCCS) is a tuition-free, independent charter school located in New York City. It serves 400 children in Kindergarten through Grade 5. GCCS is committed to inclusiveness and serving all children in its community (Harlem and Washington Heights). The school employs a rigorous, inquiry-based model of education and it has been authorized by International Baccalaureate to offer the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP).
In accordance with state law, GCCS is governed by a Board of Trustees that oversees the school’s operations to ensure fidelity to its educational mission, fiscal responsibility and compliance with all city, state and federal regulations. In order to accomplish this, the Board must review large volumes of data on a regular basis. To complicate matters, the Board of Trustees’ offices are not located inside the school building itself but rather Board members work off-site in different locations, in some cases, internationally. In order to monitor the school and ensure accountability, the Board of Trustees was in need of a consolidated, up-to-date, reliable and easy-to-use source of data that summarized the state of the school at a glance. To solve this problem, I designed and built an interactive online data dashboard for GCCS.
Work Process:
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