Sharon Machlis
Retired
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSharon Machlis is a veteran journalist-turned-data storyteller who spent more than three decades marrying reporting with data analysis and tooling, most recently leading editorial data and analytics at IDG and Foundry before retiring in 2024. She is the author of Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism and remains deeply R-obsessed, building interactive apps and automation that saved editors hours and made analytics accessible to nontechnical teams. An award-winning practitioner—recognized by ASBPE, the Digital Analytics Association, and the Jesse H. Neal awards—she specializes in translating complex analytics into clear how-to guidance and newsroom tools. Now exploring generative AI and learning Python, she approaches retirement as a laboratory for new creative projects, freelance work, and civic-minded tech. Beyond code and copy, she’s an accomplished photographer, Extra-class ham radio operator honored for humanitarian communications, and an advocate for vibrant aging.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
graduate course Computer Science, graduate course Computer Science at Framingham State UniversityBachelor's degree Political Science with a communications concentration, Bachelor's degree Political Science with a communications concentration at Binghamton University
Github Skills (200)
htmlwidgets10
api10
api-rest10
googleanalyticsr10
r-package10
stata10
spss10
rio10
googleauthr10
sas10
lists10
open-source10
webscraping9
google-analytics-api9
droplet9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
smach/SampleData
Mar 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
smach/R4JournalismBook
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 128 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
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