Tuija Sonkkila
Independent Data Wrangler
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTuija Sonkkila is an independent data wrangler with over a decade of experience turning messy institutional data into reliable, usable resources for universities and libraries. Her background spans roles as Data Specialist and Data Curator at Aalto University and earlier systems-librarian and information-architecture work, giving her deep domain expertise in academic information systems and digital library projects. Skilled in R and data transformations, she combines technical scripting with practical data curation workflows to support reporting and decision-making. Formerly part of Aalto’s leadership support services, she brings both hands-on data engineering and an understanding of organizational information needs. Based in Finland, she maintains a legacy blog documenting practical solutions and lessons from long-term library and academic IT projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Soc.Sc., Library and Information Studies, M.Soc.Sc., Library and Information Studies at University of Tampere 1925-2018High school, High school at Laitilan lukio
Github Skills (40)
ropensci9
software-quality8
r8
shiny7
igraph6
rstudio6
d3js5
web-development5
api5
r-package5
reactive5
network-visualization4
graph4
package4
viewer4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tts/mapchallenge
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
tts/helsinkiphil
Dec 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 5 months
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