Graduate Portfolio

The 4 projects below comprise my graduate portfolio - a completion requirement for my MS in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute School of Information. These projects demonstrate my competency in developing and applying theories related to critical literacies, library data services, digital humanities, and critical data studies. Descriptions of each project and the learning outcomes achieved can be viewed by following the links below for each project.

Data Dictionaries 101: Tell the Story of your Data

This is a plan for a workshop that provides an overview of data documentation and provides hands-on experience creating data dictionaries to graduate student researchers at a large university.

Fictitious Public Library's Strategic Agenda for Data Literacy & Research Services

This project is a strategic plan for implementing a suite of data literacy-related services in a fictitious public library.

Making the Desert Island Discs Dataset: Data Visceralization and How We Don't Know What We Know

This collaborative digital humanities project served as the capstone for my certificate in the Digital Humanities. For this project, I and my co-researchers generated a collection of “data visceralizations,” or representations of data that don’t rely solely on sight.

From Access to Accountability: A Case for Critically Contextualizing Open Government Data

In this research paper, I assessed the extent to which open government data portals meet their stated goal of supporting government accountability. Through critical engagement with scholarly work and an analysis of contributions to NYC Open Data’s Project Gallery, I demonstrated that open government data portals are currently geared towards technical users in the private sector and academia.