Sergio Sánchez

Research Associate @ PPIC

Public Policy Institute of California

Biography

My name is Sergio Sánchez and I’m very interested in data visualization. I’m a facilitator in the newly formed Data Visualization Society. My newest project is @tacosdedatos - tacosdedatos.com where I hope to build a place to learn data analysis and data visualization best practices, techniques, and knowledge in Spanish.

I’m also a research associate at PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) in the Higher Ed Center. The work I do there covers developmental education reform in California Community Colleges, economic mobility, and migration.

Interests

Data Visualization
Data Analytics
Open Data
Open Education

Education

B.A. in Economics, 2016

University of California, Davis
B.A. in International Relations, 2016

University of California, Davis

Projects

Analizando Datos Censales con Pandas

Este tutorial te guiará en el processo de un proyecto de análisis de datos típico utilizando datos del Censo de Estados Unidos que adquirimos de IPUMS.

tacos de datos

Tu sitio para aprender de visualización y ciencia de datos en español. Consejos, recursos y mejores prácticas para tus proyectos de tecnología, periodismo de datos y análisis estadísticos.

Guía Altair

Este libro es un documento vivo sobre la visualización de datos en python y específicamente utilizando la biblioteca altair. Aprenderás un poco sobre la grámatica de gráficos y sobre pandas, la biblioteca de análisis de datos más popular de python.

@evryCalifornian twitter bot Project

a recreation of the twitterbot @censusAmericans, @evryCalifornian tweets a little bio for every entry in the 2016 American Community Survey (#PoweredByIPUMS)

#100 Viz Project

inspired by @honestdesigners daily drawing challenges and @pybites and @talkpython #100DaysOfCode I morphed the two into a new challenge for myself: creating 100 data visualizations.

Skills

Python

R

tidyverse, shiny, rmarkdown

Visual and Information Design

d3.js + tableau

Data Analysis

Geospatial Analysis

Using Python

Web development

Django (python), some react + basics of HTML/CSS/JS

Experience

March 2019 – Present

Oakland, CA

Data Visualization Analyst

Alluma

As a data visualization analyst in a new team at Alluma I get to help shape data practice + drive data-informed culture. I also:

Develop ETL jobs + tests to process, validate, transport, colalte, aggregate, and distribute data.
Design and build dashboards and self-service tools in Tableau + Metabase for internal teams and client facing solutions.
Conduct training’s on data concepts + specific tools.

February 2019 – Present

Latinoamérica

Founder

tacosdedatos

As the creator/founder of tacosdedatos my responsibilities vary but three main ones are:

Research, write and publish content as well as reach out to potential content creators.
Create marketing materials for our content and push them on to the right channels
Maintain the website tacosdedatos.com/