Lindsay Reynolds

Summary


Pink flower serenely floating in water

In work experiences as an administrative assistant, as a fiscal assistant, and as a business analyst, I came to realize that what sets me apart is not how I strive for the best output possible, but that I am curious. Curious about everything! I am fascinated by details, large and small. I love to examine how things work (or don't work!) and how processes might be improved. I care about the particulars!

In my most recent role as business analyst for the State Office of GAL/CASA, I performed data analysis and was responsible for budgeting, fiscal reporting, and coordinating grant distributions totaling millions of dollars annually, released to nearly every county in Indiana. In this role, data was whipping past me at alarming speeds! Whether extracted from PeopleSoft or from the case management system used by programs throughout the state, I became more and more curious about the tools and processes that could be used to analyze all this data.

After resigning from my full time position in February 2021 looking for growth outside of state employment, I decided to enroll in a data analytics and visualizations boot camp. I recently earned my certificate. With what seems like endless possibilities for working with data, I’m excited to see where this journey will take me next. Currently I am seeking a position where my attention to detail and love of processes will be of value. I would love a role with strong social impact at a purpose-driven organization and where there is a workplace culture centered around collaboration.


Projects and Practice

A News Prediction Tool allows text from news articles to be analyzed in order to examine the reliability of the news story. In a team of three, we created word clouds for common words in the true and fake news datasets and a pipeline was built with scikit-learn allowing the merged dataset to be split and tested. Flask was used to allow users to test text from articles with the model.
Completed with a partner, this project analyzes COVID-19 resident positivity and unemployment claims before and during the pandemic (through July 2021). Resident positivity by zip code in Marion County can be found on the map or with user input of a zip code. Resources for families in need including bus stops and food pantries are also mapped for the project.
With publicly available data for NYC City Bikes, visualizations were created with the focus of analysis being bike rentals in Jersey City for spring and summer months of 2019 and 2020. Observations about pandemic trends are discussed in the Tableau story.
Utilizing Plotly and D3 JavaScript libraries, a dashboard was created allowing a user to select an id number associated with a test subject in order for visualizations to update. This project is based on data provided during boot camp for bacteria in navels.
For this project, weather conditions were analyzed for over 500 cities across the globe to study how distance from the equator impacted weather. Random latitudes and longitudes were used with the Python library Citipy to identify the nearest cities, and with the resulting cities and the OpenWeatherMap API, plots were created for certain weather conditions using Matplotlib.
Other repositories include a project analyzing heights in the NBA completed with a partner and several repositories for solo challenges completed during boot camp.

WordPress Projects

Work completed for a website utilizing a WordPress theme for an author in southern Utah. The author's first children's book was published in 2022 and the website includes illustrations from the book as well as a link to order the book "Savannah Sleeper is a Troubled T-Rex" through Amazon.
Work completed for a website utiling a WordPress theme for a small business owner in southern Utah. The business hosts reptile experiences for birthday parties and school functions. The website includes photos of the business owner and some of the reptiles, as well as the experiences available.

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