Hi there 👋

My name is Will Bonnell and I work at NORC at the University of Chicago doing political survey research. I also help organize a group/set of events called the R Community Collaboratives. I have three years of experience in R and SQL and about a year or two experience programming production dashboards in R Shiny, with some skills in CSS/JS.

  • 🔭 I’m currently working on a piece of a scrollytelling built in R shiny displaying migration data.
  • 🌱 I’m currently learning Julia, expanding my knowledge of Bayesian methods and causal inference, and applying to PhD programs in international relations.
  • 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on interactive data visualisations and data journalism. I'm available for commission or collaboration. Some of my past vizes are available on my website.
  • 💬 Ask me about some of my research on spatial influences on voting, how the hell the {openxlsx} package works, or why I think moral foundations theory is garbage.
  • 📫 How to reach me: twitter!
  • 😄 Pronouns: he/him

Some past projects:

  • 🚆 {ctar} - an R package to interact with the Chicago Transit Authority API for live data on train locations
  • 📜 {googlecivic} - an R package to interact with the Google Civic Information API to retrieve voter information data by address
  • 📈 stayta - a 'proof-of-concept' app to parse simple stata commands into R and return R output
  • 🚗 Chicago Vision Zero dashboard - a collaborative hackathon-produced dashboard to display traffic crashes and fatalities data in Chicago