Civic Open Data Platform and Vacancy Analysis for Saint Louis
Built the AWS infrastructure behind a public DKAN civic data platform, and turned an undocumented city parcel database into a vacancy map that informed policy.
GIS / geospatial systems
Spatial systems represent and analyze location-aware data so geographic relationships can be integrated into products and decisions.

Spatial systems represent and analyze location-aware data so geographic relationships can be integrated into products and decisions.
This domain is valuable because data and AI systems expose the full path from collection to action. They make it obvious that storage, transformation, meaning, trust, and incentives all shape the value of the output.
The transfer advantage is strong here. Learning to ask where data came from, how it changed, and who is rewarded by its use builds a habit that improves product, operational, and strategic thinking in other domains. This domain gets more useful when it is compared with adjacent systems instead of being treated as a silo. That is where reusable judgment starts to form.
Built the AWS infrastructure behind a public DKAN civic data platform, and turned an undocumented city parcel database into a vacancy map that informed policy.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a systems for capturing, analyzing, and visualizing spatial and geographic data.