I'm a Staff Data Scientist at Premise Data, where I lead ML systems that process global location data. Previously, I worked at Ipsos' Risk Analytics Division on spatial data science for international development, including rapid response work supporting the World Bank after the 2020 Beirut explosion. I spent five years at Carto developing spatial data science expertise and created CARTOframes, a Python package that became a core company product. Before transitioning to data science and engineering, I taught high school physics.

I created and taught Geospatial Cloud Computing & Visualization at the MUSA program in the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

With a strong emphasis on data analysis in Python with SQL and PostGIS, students built interactive web applications backed by REST APIs built with Flask and visualized with Jinja HTML templates. The student-built web apps told data-driven geospatial stories often from an urban planning angle. Data was housed in cloud databases/warehouses (PostgreSQL on AWS RDS and Google BigQuery) fully managed by students.

I've given a lot of talks and done a lot of projects. Here is a small sample...

• George Floyd Maps published at USA Today
• World Bank Beirut RDNA work
• Built v0 of cartoframes and developed vision for v1 and acted as product manager, beta tester, developer, etc.

See a more complete list of talks and workshops that I have given.