
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
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B.A. in Economics, 2016
University of California, Davis
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B.A. in International Relations, 2016
University of California, Davis
Experience
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.
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/
Research Associate
Public Policy Institute of California
Responsibilities include:
- Data cleaning and statistical analysis
- Summarize findings for publications
- Develop and deploy research protocols
Data Analyst
Davis Joint Unified School District
Prepared, analyzed, and presented school climate data for stakeholders in the school district.
Explore projects
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 + HTML/CSS/JS