David Eads | http://www.recoveredfactory.net |
Professional experience The Marshall Project, Data Editor, 2020-2025 Manage a team of 5 full-time data reporters along with 1-2 fellows per year. Led data reporting – including reporters from Invisible Institute – on Pulitzer Prize-winning series about police dog bites, as well leading and editing projects about prison censorship, mass shootings, the Cleveland court system, foster agencies that take benefits meant for children (with NPR; 2022 Pulitzer finalist), the national crime data crisis, and more. The Chicago Reporter, Design and Delivery Editor, 2019-2020 Created GovBook, a tool for finding contact information for public officials in Illinois. Maintained Illinois COVID-19 data and provided graphics and editorial data products for 16+ publications. ProPublica Illinois, News Applications Developer, 2017-2019 Created static publishing tool for local expansion with focus on sustainable processes for large-scale data and geographic data. Geocoded and mapped 54m parking ticket records, scraped PACER for bankruptcy and gun cases, used DeckGL to visualize patterns in video gambling machines. NPR, Senior Supervising Editor, Visuals Team, 2016-2017; Managed team, developed projects such as live annotations (NPR’s most popular digital editorial product), ran industry-leading internship program, analyzed data for reporting, produced award-winning web stories, covered national elections, oversaw open source efforts. Chicago Tribune, News Applications Developer, 2012-2014 Developed award-winning projects like His Saving Grace, data-driven news applications such as Crime in Chicagoland, award-winning investigations, and open source tools including the Tarbell publishing platform. Covered 2012 and 2014 national and state-wide elections. Fermi National Accelerator Lab, E-Center network monitoring Drupal developer, 2010-2012 | Selected projects A donde van los desaparecidos (2018, updated 2023) Developed map and technology for this Premio Gabo award-winning investigation of almost 2,000 clandestine mass graves in Mexico. Updated in 2023 with Quinto Elemento Lab with 3,000 additional graves discovered in the intervening years. FreeGeek Chicago (2005-2012) Co-founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit that recycled used electronics to provide functional computers and training in exchange for community service; closed 2022, re-opened 2024. Invisible Institute (2001-2009) Created and maintained The View From The Ground, an early blog that investigated police abuse in Chicago public housing. Speaking & teaching I speak about and teach practical technology skills, including teaching at The Illinois Institute of Technology (2020-2021), Northwestern’s Washington D.C campus (2014-2017). presented at Data Science Taipei (2015), NICAR (2014-2018), Migrahack (Chicago 2013, Mexico City 2014, Tucson 2015), Chi Hack Night, at DrupalCon (2008), Deloitte’s Midwest conference (2007), and provided expert witness in FOIA lawsuits (2007, 2015). Expertise Languages: Javascript, Python, HTML5, CSS3, PHP. Frameworks & platforms: GatsbyJS, SvelteKit, Rails, Django, Flask, Wordpress, Jekyll, React, Observable, Jupyter. Design and analytics: UI/UX discovery, user-centered design, user testing, multivariate feature testing. Deployment and delivery: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Docker, old school *NIX sysadmin. Amazon Web Services: RDS/Aurora, Elastic Container Service, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, API gateway, IAM. Core technologies: React, Svelte, GraphQL, Hasura, Serverless, Postgres, PostGIS, GNU Make, Dagster, D3, Mapbox, DeckGL. Education Bachelors of Science, Physics: North Park University, Chicago, IL, 2003 (with honors) |