Political Data Consulting Services

During my time at Stanford and in national politics, I have learned many ways data science can be used to elevate campaign and organizational political strategy and operations. However, only few major campaigns and nonprofits have the budget to hire a full-time data scientist. To fill that gap, I have helped several local and state campaigns, nonprofits, news outlets, and organizations access data and insights as a freelance data consultant.

If you are a progressive or Democratic candidate or organization — or a local news outlet — in need of data services or journalism, I want to help you. I specialize in Washington State (home), but have worked beyond the Pacific Northwest in states like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina.

Whether it’s one-time asks or recurring tasks, I love collaborating with values-aligned leaders hoping to harness data to plan more effective strategy and operations.

    • Win number calculation

    • Demographic, geographic support & turnout baselines

    • Comprehensive election results analysis

    • Voter contact targeting and tactical strategy

    • Targeted donor call lists

    • Future political trend projections

    • Redistricting map drawing & data analysis (racially polarized voting)

    • Complex election result mapping by precinct, districts

    • Geospatial data engineering to handle redistricted district and precinct shapes

    • Reusable, updatable databases for field targeting, donors, etc.

    • Interactive web dashboards to visualize and manipulate data

    • Cloud database storage and computing consultation

    • Analyzing and writing research on demographic, financial, political, economic, and social currents driving electoral results and trends

    • Streamline complex data on voter contact, early vote, fundraising, etc. into digestible visualizations

    • See my published writing here.

  • Months-long, mixed-qualitative-quantitative research to answer tough questions with data on future political landscape, why voters vote the way they do (political identify and motivators), experiments testing efficacy of different campaign tactic, and more.

    Potential Projects:

    • Ballot measure electoral prospects by jurisdiction, issue area, word choice, election year

    • Randomized control trial experiment on efficacy of different messaging tactics

    • Using machine learning to engineer a “score” for specific issues (ex: views on policing) or ideology (ex: progressive vs moderate Democrats).

  • This is a not an exhaustive list. If you don’t see what you need above, drop a line.

    I am constantly learning and building new things, and would love to collaborate with people and organizations in the work.

Work

HaystaqDNA
Washington Community Alliance
Working Families Party
Former State Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley
Seattle City Councilwoman Tammy Morales
Climate Cabinet
Prism West Consulting
Tufts University (MGGG Redistricting Lab)
More Equitable Democracy

Past Clients

Inatai Foundation
HaystaqDNA
Seattle City Councilman Andrew Lewis
FairVote
Blue Spruce Strategies
Dujie Tahat Consulting
NW Progressive Institute

Words In

Seattle Times
Publicola
The Stranger
KUOW / NPR
Common Dreams
South Seattle Emerald
Capitol Hill Seattle Blog
American Journal of Community Psychology