Hannah Garland
Partner at DataMade
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolHannah Garland is a Partner at DataMade with a decade of experience blending product management, team leadership, and hands-on engineering in Python and React. She excels at translating complex civic and programmatic systems into clear documentation and pragmatic data models, evidenced by co-creating the living "how-to" docs for DataMade and building the data backbone for ChiRecoveryPlan.com. Hannah designs focused, maintainable applications such as the Illinois Public Pensions Database and contributes resilient civic-data tooling like improvements to the City Bureau city-scrapers project. Based in Chicago with a journalism background, she brings a communicator’s clarity to technical design and a knack for turning messy public data into auditable, reusable systems.
10 years of coding experience
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Benjamin Bosse High SchoolUniversity of Missouri
Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (10)
scrapy10
python10
webscraping10
datetimes9
datetime9
html8
timeout6
boto6
amazon-s36
django-storages6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
City-Bureau/city-scrapers
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Scrape, standardize and share public meetings from local government websites
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily contributed to the project by updating and maintaining the Chicago Department of Public Health (chi_pubhealth) scraper. Their work involved adapting the scraper to changes in the target website's structure, particularly for 2018 meeting data. They also addressed parsing issues and improved the scraper's robustness by using `continue` instead of `pass` in error handling, and adding forward compatibility for start URLs. Furthermore, the user expanded the scraper to include all Public Health meetings and split the name/address into location attributes.
city-scraperspythonscrapyscrapestandardize
datamade/testing-guidelines
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
📕 Writing tests, the DataMade way
Contributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
datamadetesting
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