Projects

My professional fridge: research, data, and things I’ve built.

These projects show both the research and the work behind it: reconciling messy records, choosing a useful unit of analysis, and making results easier to explore. Open a project for my role, selected outputs, and links to the full materials.

Flood Risk & Housing Markets

Spatial analysis

Causal inference

Linking property sales, flood maps, and risk information to study housing markets in Cook County.

Cook County Property Tax Reform

Public finance

Policy analysis

Reproducible analysis of exemptions, incentives, and who bears the property-tax burden.

From Parcels to Development Projects

Data engineering

Research tools

Connecting related PINs into documented commercial and industrial developments, with a searchable public website.

Local Government Levy Responsiveness

Panel data

Public finance

Building a panel of taxing agencies to examine how levies respond to changes in the property-tax base.

Fiscal Futures

State budgets

Reproducibility

Data, methodology, and reproducible reporting behind recurring research on Illinois state finances.

Illinois State Budget Research Dataset

Open data

Data engineering

Harmonized revenue and expenditure records for FY1998–2026, with reusable classifications and documented decisions.

Also on the fridge

Working from home in Illinois

Research on who can work remotely and who does, with replication materials and a public-radio interview about the findings.

Read the report · Explore the analysis · WGLT interview

Emergency management & public communication

During my 2020 internship with Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, I analyzed operational data for situation reports and created visualizations supporting the city’s COVID-19 response.

Chicago COVID-19 testing locations, with circle sizes indicating the number of tests as of July 30, 2020.

Teaching programming for public policy

I designed and taught Programming and Data Analysis for Public Policy at UIC in Fall 2021, developing policy-focused datasets, lessons, and exercises in R. More about my teaching and experience.