Center for Governmental Studies
Web Developer
Data people can explore
Overview
Education stakeholders needed to explore graduation-rate and related datasets without a researcher sitting next to them. I built interactive visualization tools for the 60by25 initiative so policymakers and agencies could filter, compare, and make sense of multi-dimensional education data in the browser.
Context
Education metrics only worked if a researcher interpreted them. Stakeholders needed to filter and compare without exporting to spreadsheets.
How it evolved
Interactive D3 tools on institutional C#/SQL data, shaped with researchers around real 60by25 analysis habits.
Where it is now
Exploration workflows agencies and education stakeholders can run themselves.
What it delivered
Turned dense education datasets into something stakeholders could explore without writing queries
Built with researchers so the interaction model matched real analysis workflows
Used by education stakeholders and government agencies around the 60by25 graduation-rate work
How it ships
D3 on a C# MVC + SQL backend so exploration stayed interactive while the institutional data model stayed authoritative
Filtering and hierarchy shaped with researchers around how they actually cut the data — not a generic chart dashboard
Responsive delivery so stakeholders could review numbers in meetings, not only at a desk
Surfaces
60by25 graduation dashboards and analysis tools
Stack
Team
Two developers working with researchers and data analysts