Chelsea Lawson
Director Of Analytics at Cityfi
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChelsea Lawson is a Director of Analytics with a decade of experience applying data, visualization, and gamification to civic innovation and public-private partnerships. Based in Brookline, MA, she leads analytics strategy at Cityfi, quantifying social return on investment and building dashboards that translate complex municipal systems into actionable insights. Previously she ran LA’s Open Data Program, automating data pipelines with R and Pentaho and deploying Tableau to drive performance management for priorities like housing and budget. With an MS in Business Analytics from USC and a BA from Duke, she blends technical fluency with policy-savvy decision-making and a track record of training teams in R, ArcGIS, and Tableau. Outside of work she programs in R for civic and quantified-self projects and hosts the Quantified Self LA meetup, signaling a practical curiosity about how data improves everyday life.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Major: Public Policy Studies; Certificate: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Major: Public Policy Studies; Certificate: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Duke UniversityMasters of Science in Business Analytics, Business Statistics, Masters of Science in Business Analytics, Business Statistics at University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Github Skills (41)
realms8
ecology8
geofencing7
socrata7
mobility6
two-way6
netsuite6
sorting6
ggplot6
transformation6
soda6
data-api6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CityOfLosAngeles/WaterCapture
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
chursaner/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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