Portfolio Highlights
Click the red links in the slide below for more detail on the projects, process and outcomes of each.
Be a Problem-Finding Wizard
~ or, at least, stop solving the wrong problem and wasting your time!~ Question: Modern life. Adulting. Dayjobs. Projects, Clients, Stakeholders. Our families. Vacations. Money ... Which one of these doesn't have problems? Answer: they ALL do, sadly. Our challenge is to identify WHICH problem to work on next with…
Design Experiments with Blockchain teams
I've run a few experiments this year as I kickoff working with teams who are innovating on the bleeding edge - blockchain. Below are two case studies from 2018 - click through to read the methods and takeaways. GAMES, SPECULATIVE FICTION + DESIGN THINKING Design Thinking is popular and proven…
Digital Security Training Guide for Organizations
From Fall 2017 - through the Spring of 2018, I got to work with ten other trainers to collaborate on the design and facilitation of a digital security training series for organizations, and our pilot group was organizations supporting immigrants in NYC. In particular, our goal was to "build power…
Using Open Data to Understand Needs: PBNYC Case Study
If you've never worked with data, you might think that finding an open data set available through a trusted city provider would be the end of your journey. And then, you'd open the data set, try to use it in your favorite visualization tool, and realize you had a long…
SXSW 2018: From Publishing City Data to Solving Problems
I was on a panel March 2018 at SXSW, talking about my work with open data, sharing this stage with the smart: ADRIENNE SCHMOEKER, New York City Mayor’s Office of Data and Analytics MARY TOBIN, Brownsville Partnership ZACK BRISSON, Reboot Sharing stories from the front lines of data impact, we…
Creating an open data set of participatory budgeting
Part of my work in early 2017 was to methodically go through the digital assets of the Participatory Budgeting Project and decide which to prioritize to update. Given that the Case Studies web page is consistently in the top five visited pages on the site, and that the demand for a…
PBP’s work in the NYC Open Data report
I'm excited to share that my work with Participatory Budgeting, leveraging open data to help both elected officials and residents make data-informed choices made it into the 2017 MODA Open Data Report. Read the report here.
Smart Cities NYC 2017: Open Minds, Open Data panel
It was an honor to share the panel stage with Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, Beth Noveck, and Lourdes German at the Smart Cities NYC conference. The core questions I asked were: What tools or frameworks do we use to generate broad civic engagement with our metrics and data sets? How…
Data Mapping, Project Management: ArtSpan
ArtSpan is a community arts support organization based in the San Francisco Bay area who run the annual SF Open Studios. “We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy.” Until recently they run a Drupal 6 site and CiviCRM with a complex interface and custom…