Aleszu Bajak
Data Scientist
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleszu Bajak is a data scientist and former director of data visualization with 11 years of experience turning complex research and public-interest reporting into clear, impactful visual narratives. He built a data-viz team and a scalable toolset from scratch at the Urban Institute, and previously applied statistical, geospatial, and NLP techniques as a senior investigative data reporter at USA TODAY. Comfortable bridging journalism, research, and engineering, he has overseen dozens of dashboards and interactive tools that informed audiences from city councils to Capitol Hill. His background spans science journalism, academia, and hands-on lab work—he once designed viral vectors in a gene therapy lab—and he founded Storybench.org and LatinAmericanScience.org to advance digital storytelling. Based in Cleveland, he pairs a Master’s in Analytics with a storyteller’s instinct for finding the public-interest narrative in messy data.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The English School, Bogotá, ColombiaBA, Biology, Spanish, BA, Biology, Spanish at Amherst CollegeScarsdale High SchoolMaster’s, Analytics, Master’s, Analytics at Northeastern University
Spanish
Github Skills (15)
azerothcore7
r-package6
leaflet6
r5
react5
gis5
spatial5
visualization4
security4
spatial-data4
python4
maps3
deck-gl3
alarm1
data-visualisation1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aleszu/tracking-power-outages-in-FL
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
aleszu/text-mining-course
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:104 commits, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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