Biography

My name is Sergio Sánchez Zavala and I’m originally from Tijuana, Baja California, México. I’m dedicated to making research transparent and reproducible. I’m a public policy wonk + data and tech nerd. I like making accessible and reproducible open-sourced tools and resources 🤓

I’m also:

🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏼‍🏫 a facilitator in the newly formed Data Visualization Society
🌮📊 the creator of @tacosdedatos - tacosdedatos.com where I hope to build a place to learn data analysis and data visualization best practices, techniques, and knowledge in Spanish.
🧑🏼‍🔬🎨 and a data visualization analyst at Alluma - a social enterprise in the social tech space.

Interests

Data Visualization
Social Tech
Public Policy

Education

B.A. in Economics, 2016

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

University of California, Davis

Experience

March 2020 - 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/