Meet Spencer!

I’m a data scientist with a passion for visualization, especially with R.

I’ve done projects with Circle K, MurphyUSA, news organizations, historical nonprofits, and Cintas.

My works span politics, history, housing, emotion classifiers, film, and mapping. Check them out below!

Notes on AI: I used ChatGPT for debugging help with the text posters, college football website, and the Disney movie grid. We used Dalle-2 for the Ohio hackathon images.

Text Posters

I plot text to recreate an image in R ggplot. They turned out so well I started selling them!

NCAAF Top 25 History

Compare any 2 college football teams through history with this AP Poll comparison webapp in Python.

Dissertation Stat Assistant

Research on post-graduation teaching success for new educators.

Data Sonification

Instead of making images with data, I used time-oriented data to make a song.

Housing Investigation

Winner, Idaho Press Club’s 2023 Best Student Investigative/Watchdog Reporting

Historical Travel Map

I extracted 2,000 locations from journal entries, gathered their coordinates, and mapped them.

Cintas Best Restroom

Each year, the bathroom supply company Cintas gives out awards for the “Best Restroom…

Ohio Voter Hackathon

I won an MLH-sponsored Hackathon for my work in helping small political organizations access the Ohio voter history for campaigning.

Disney turns 100

Disney turned 100 earlier this year, this piece displays their influence on movies. With some movie API calls, I was able to build these graphics in R.

Campaign Finance

After the city mayoral and city council election ended, I broke down the financial spending.

Election Coverage

My first interview for BYU-I scroll profiling a city mayor candidate

Pentagon Papers

For my machine learning final…

Historical Writings Dashboard

I built a dashboard that summarizes the Wilford Woodruff Papers. This historical figure’s journals, speeches, and letters are over 25,000 pages…

Consulting for Circle K

This was a consulting project I did for Circle K’s recent additons to their customer loyalty program. They asked me to look at their thousands of locations and see how…