Hi, I’m Emma Wilcox. After founding and running an award-winning independent arts space, I retrained as a data analyst to continue doing what I love: increasing shared understanding between people.

Using competencies in Excel, SQL, Python and Tableau, I bring a nuanced and tenacious approach to the research and storytelling inherent in analysis.

Now based in the Hudson Valley, I'm looking for a remote role using data to identify immediate as well as long-term opportunities, and help illuminate the patterns formed by motivations and conditions in the business environment. These are patterns we can interpret, chart, and respond to strategically.

In my prior professional life, I’ve had to constantly review organizational position within a changing landscape of resources and demographic shifts. Describing a business landscape requires both curiosity and precision.

In addition to designing and assessing the performance of multiyear programs, collaborations, and initiatives, I frequently needed to use writing and presenting to translate between artists and clients, as well as distilling the lived experiences of hundreds of constituents into vivid and concise form for policymaker review. Having worked cross-sector extensively, I can consider challenges from more than one perspective and with more than one approach.

I have been a layperson reader of history since my late teens and am engaged by the contemplation of causality, analysis, and interpretation. Many of my current inspirations for new data vizes derive from following the work of journalists and researchers such as the Pew Foundation and ProPublica, but also from historians, scientists, and sometimes, poets. My study of photography laid the foundation for becoming a data analyst because it is fundamentally about manipulating variables and considering their interplay, through a disciplined technical process of including and excluding information.

In daily life, as a reader and sometimes hiker,  I revise my assumptions about how the world functions, integrating new information as I can access it.