Frank Donnelly
Head Of Library GIS & Data Services
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Donnelly is Head of Library GIS & Data Services at Brown University with nine years of professional experience bridging academic librarianship, geographic research, and open-source geospatial tools. He builds and maintains public data repositories, teaches census-focused GIS workshops (notably with QGIS), and produces both peer-reviewed and practitioner scholarship on topics like the geographic distribution of public libraries. Grounded in geography and library science (MA, MLIS), he specializes in socio-economic and demographic government datasets and is a frequent resource for journalists, nonprofits, and government agencies. A practical FOSS advocate, he creates public SQLite/Spatialite databases and leverages PostgreSQL/PostGIS and Python/Pandas to make neighborhood- and state-level data accessible for research and civic use.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Library and Information Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography at University of DelawareMaster of Arts (M.A.), Geography, Master of Arts (M.A.), Geography at University of Toronto
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
census-data8
sqlite-database8
static-data7
sqlitebrowser7
transit7
database7
browser6
cross-platform6
sqlite6
mta6
spatial-data6
sql5
spatial-analysis5
gis5
maps3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
frankpd/gis_lab_metadata
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Brown-University-Library/geodata_pdf_tutorials
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:35 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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