Lauren Oldham Jaromczyk
Data Visualization Developer

I'm a geographer-turned-software developer with expertise in interactive web maps. I build dashboards and data-driven decision support tools that bring clarity to difficult data. My goal is to present data in a clear, concise, and beautiful way that allows people to derive insights without any technical expertise. I currently work as a Data Visualization Developer at Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

When I'm not working, I enjoy baking, reading, and listening to audiobooks. Lately, I spend most of my free time knitting while watching sitcoms or college basketball (go cats!).

Ithaca, New York laurenoldham1202@gmail.com GitHub LinkedIn

Selected Work

Preview of eBird test project

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Abundance

Personal project exploring weekly abundance of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in Michigan. I created this project to highlight mobile-first design, map interactivity, and my ability to geoprocess raster data into a readable, user-friendly hex format.

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Preview of eBird Status and Trends

eBird Status and Trends

Interactive dashboard for abundance, range, and trends data for 2900+ bird species. This is a professional project for Cornell Lab of Ornithology that focused on making complicated, high-resolution spatial bird data accessible to non-experts. It includes dynamic charts and maps that calculate population statistics on the fly.

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Preview of eBird Status and Trends

North American Bird Declines

Scrollytelling app to accompany Science publication North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant. This is a professional project for Cornell Lab of Ornithology that highlights the real world impacts of bird declines by connecting the user to four specific bird species experiencing losses.

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Preview of eBird Status and Trends

Basketball Travel Distance

Scrollytelling story + dashboard exploring travel distance to site locations for top-seeded men's basketball teams during March Madness. I created this project for my MS in Digital Mapping and completed the entire project lifecycle, including ideation, wireframing, data munging, and project execution.

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Background

Core Skills

  • Web maps: Mapbox, vector tiles, GIS, H3, Turf.js
  • Data visualization: Highcharts, d3
  • Data processing and cloud: R, Python, AWS S3
  • Version control: Git
  • Javascript and front-end: Vue, Nuxt, jQuery, ES6

Experience and Education

  • Data Visualization Developer — Cornell Lab of Ornithology
  • Front-End UI Developer — Ursa Space Systems
  • GIS Developer — Global Parametrics
  • MS in Digital Mapping — University of Kentucky
  • BA in Geography — University of Kentucky