Xavi Gimenez
Interactive Data Journalist
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXavi Gimenez is an Interactive Data Journalist and multimedia engineer with 12+ years building data-driven web interfaces, visualizations, and exploratory analytics for newsrooms, academia, and R+D projects. He blends hands-on front-end engineering (from Flash/Flex roots to modern JS and D3) with semantic web expertise, integrating RDF/SPARQL-backed UIs for Linked Open Data platforms in higher education. At SIRIS Academic and The Economist he has driven co-design workflows, information architecture and KPI definitions to turn complex datasets into clear, stakeholder-ready insights. He also teaches data visualization at university level, translating industry practice into classroom-ready curricula. A longtime freelancer and startup co‑founder, Xavi pairs entrepreneurial grit with a research mindset, contributing to ERC projects and practical prototypes. Based in Barcelona, he brings a rare mix of UX sensibility, data science tooling (R/Python), and production-grade interaction design.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
FP, Computer Systems, FP, Computer Systems at Salesians SarriàBUP, BUP at Sant Àngel SarriàCol.legi Sant Miquel, Molins de ReiPostgraduate on Information Visualization, Postgraduate, Postgraduate on Information Visualization, Postgraduate at Universitat Pompeu FabraMultimedia Engineering, Engineering, Multimedia Engineering, Engineering at La Salle BCN
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (11)
svg10
vega10
vega-lite9
canvas9
visualization9
grammar9
endpoints5
transform5
sparql4
rdf4
fetch1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sirisacademic/universities_ranking
Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
sirisacademic/catalonia-cartography
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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