Hi, I'm Anastasia
I am a data reporter at Newsday
and a co-founder of the School of Data Kyrgyzstan
See some of my projects below

Data reporter at Newsday: analysis and investigations

Data reporter at Newsday: breaking news

Technologies used: Python, Google Sheets, Flourish
Technologies used: Python, Google Spreadsheets, Flourish

Data fellowship at The Marshall Project

Technologies used: Python, Google Sheets, Airtable, Observable, Datawrapper
From faster, replicable work to multi-story databases, here’s what I’m most excited about after my fellowship with a data team

My experiments with coding for journalism

Capstone project from my experience in Kyrgyzstan:

The result is shocking: between a quarter and a third of schools in the country are in deplorable condition. At least 300,000 children study in these schools every day. 
The project is a longread data story, an open database, series of reports and a data-driven game. These were cross-published by 9 media outlets in 3 languages. 
Technologies used: Google Suite (shared folders and collaborative documents) and Zoom for project management, Python for scraping, Google Sheets for data cleaning and data analysis. 

For data visualization we used Flourish and d3 (scrollama library). For the layout, we used Tilda and Github. For the data game, we used Google Sheets, Figma and Javascript.

President’s office reacted to the story by reaching out to journalists and asking for additional information.
The story was followed up by researchers and analysts (Social Innovation Lab Kyrgyzstan and KG Analytics) and relevant NGOs (‘Foundation for Education Initiatives Support’ and ‘Child rights defenders’ league public foundation).

Data Stories I mentored and edited:

Data Projects I led:

In 2018, a story got in the IJNet's list of important innovative reporting. In 2021, my mentees brought the first SIGMA award to Kyrgyzstan.

One of our flagship events is LAMPA, international data journalism conference in Russian language. It is running online since 2020.

One of our side projects with students, Data Art Carpet, won a special prize (jury choice) at the Moscow Dataviz Awards 2021.
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