Data Analysis and Consulting for SOIL in Haïti
Design challenge: Put four years of disjointed data on clients, payments, profitability, etcetera to effective use for a non-profit in Haïti focusing on providing composting toilets as a public sanitation and agriculture solution.
Tools used: Data analysis/visualization using Julia and R.
Having tried to start my own composting toilet business a few years ago (see the Terra-Loo story in my portfolio), I ended up visiting SOIL in Haïti to observe how they ran an eco-friendly, scalable composting system in an urban environment. I have kept in touch and wanted to continue to contribute to their project, so I reached out and offered to help them leverage the data they had been collecting since 2015. Below are just a few examples of some visualizations I have created for SOIL this year.
Data science is humanity’s sixth sense, in a way. It allows us to discern the patterns that are all around us yet lay beyond the perceptive powers of our bare senses.
