Building teams that put data to work
I've led work in product, engineering, design, and communications. Knowing how it all fits together gives me the confidence to sweat the details without losing sight of the mission.
From public to private. From an audience of one to audiences of millions. From elections to disease surveillance to research infrastructure. I make data useful for people and machines.
I am available for limited consulting opportunities outside US business hours. Interested? Get in touch
Products
Election forecasting
Interactive statistical models used by millions to understand U.S. elections, with a focus on making uncertainty legible to lay audiences.
Public health surveillance
A first-of-its-kind integrated infectious disease dashboard, and agency-wide leadership in data visualization and data-driven communication.
Data platforms
Ingestion and entity resolution across dozens of public and private data sources, built on Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes on AWS.
Experience
Download CV (PDF) →Managers are supposed to slow down, but I'm writing more code than ever. Earlier in my career I focused on building robust open source tools, like csvkit. Today I use teams of agents to build more, and better, than I ever could alone.
Projects
The Tyler Loop A nonprofit, civic newsroom I co-founded in 2017. Published hundreds of articles over six years.
Data · Media
The Diaries of James David Smillie AI-generated transcripts of the personal diaries of American artist James David Smillie (1833–1909).
Data · AI · Art
Samuel Colman: A Catalogue Raisonné The authoritative catalogue of etchings created by the 19th-century American artist, along with a biography based on original research.
Data · Storytelling · Art
Cabinet My personal collection of prints and drawings. It includes European and American works spanning the 16th through 20th centuries, with a heavy emphasis on etching.
Data · Art
Chabot to Wildcat Track your journey through the East Bay Hills, one segment at a time. Can you explore all 230 miles?
Data · OaklandAbout
I'm a dad, semi-pro art historian, slow hiker, omnivorous reader, try-hard plastic rock climber, and family genealogist. In my free time I research antique prints and drawings using AI and data-driven methods. I live in sunny Oakland, California.