Deirdre Francks Email & Phone Number

South Lake Tahoe, CA, US

• Manage data collection and analysis to support the League's environmental programs.
• Generate dashboards, visualizations, and reports using R and ArcGIS to communicate data findings to partners and the general public.

• Mentor groups of 7-10 data professionals through interactive data science courses.

• Authored interactive tutorials covering data wrangling, visualization, and reporting in R.
• Designed customized data science projects for a range of industries (e.g., energy, pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance).
• Developed internal R packages to maintain course data and artifacts.

• Analyzed government data to produce 40+ informative reports and visualizations.
• Managed team of contributors to produce annual report covering U.S. expenditures, revenues, and outcomes at the federal, state, and local level.

Stanford, CA

• Analyzed scientific literature and data on global aquaculture production.
• Data responsibilities included querying international aquaculture databases and data wrangling, analysis, and visualization in R.

Stanford, California, United States

• Helped students gain advanced skills in data manipulation, visualization, and analysis in R.
• Evaluated data challenges drawn from professional-level projects, provided detailed feedback, and coached students through increasingly difficult problems.

• Interviewed, assessed, and hired 60 summer staff members from the Stanford student population for instructor roles at Stanford Sierra Camp, an alumni camp in South Lake Tahoe.
• Oversaw the development and implementation of programming focused on environmental education, arts, and recreation.

• Researched, designed, and implemented immersive environmental programming to instruct 500+ children and 200+ adults in natural history, ecological literacy, and stewardship.

• Developed skills in data wrangling, programming, and visualization centered around conducting professional-quality data science projects.
• Learned to utilize cutting-edge tools like the tidyverse in R and created highly informative data visualizations and reports.

• Studied methods of environmental education and their efficacy in garnering youth participation in the environmental movement.
• Conducted field research in Yosemite, recorded and coded observations in NVivo, and drafted detailed reports aimed at improving environmental education techniques.