Aleszu

@aleszu.bsky.social

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Data Scientist, Advance Local • Fmr director of dataviz, Urban Institute • Alum USA TODAY Investigations, Undark magazine, Esquire, Science Friday • Knight Fellow at MIT ‘14 • Taught @ Northeastern • Built Storybench.org • Peruano-gringo • Cleveland OH

Screenshot of shell script to audit GitHub actions code
Screenshot showing the Urban Institute tool "Upward Mobility Data Dashboard."
Animation of data tool of Urban Institute analysis showing that if the Thrifty Food Plan update is rolled back, SNAP benefits will fail to cover the cost of a modestly priced meal in every county in the US.
Share of construction workers born outside the US
Line charts showing the timing of recovery phases for the 2018 Carr Fire.
Tile map showing by state the proportion of families across the US that lack the resources they need to thrive. In Hawaii, the state with the largest share of people in families with resources below the Urban Institute's true cost of economic security (TCES) threshold, 66 percent of people lacked the resources needed to thrive. And in North Dakota, which had the smallest share of people in families with resources below the threshold, 40 percent of people still did not have the resources necessary to achieve economic security.
Chart showing simulation of baby bond programs would increase the median financial wealth for Hispanic families from $148,000 to $187,000 and from $160,000 to $197,000 for their Black counterparts.
Animation showing "access to preschool" metric and subgroups one can see as part of Urban Institute's new upward mobility data dashboard.