Lisa Evans' Personal Home Page

Keep in touch through @objectgroup on twitter, linked in, or email me at lisa at objectgroup dot org.

I've worked on a range of projects over time. Here's a few I particularly like:

Writing

I've written over 100 pieces for the Guardian on news worthy data sets. There is a nice visualisation of this work on Journalisted.

I'm interested in financial data and work with Open Spending to create a set of publicly available, easily comparable, government accounts.

For research on public spending I often post to my personal blog.

I was lead researcher on Where Does My Money Go? and wrote detailed reports on the data used in this display of public spending.

Coding

I worked for 2 years as a software engineer writing C for billing software. I've written perl scripts to simplify the creation of a couple of websites for the SOS Children charity. The sites are:

Two Talk - a photograph conversation website that was updated every day for a year and is now updated less frequently by SOS staff.

Doodle Boat - a website that displayed a new drawing from a child in the care of SOS Children, every day for a year.

I have written many screen scrapers in Perl to extract data for my work at the Guardian. Here are some examples:

• The Guardian Datablog spreadsheet of spreadsheets
• Desert Island Discs: all the records and all the luxuries
• Witchcraft and demons: the court cases of Scottish witches

Maths

I'm currently studying M343 Applications of probability. I'll complete it in October this year.

I've successfully completed the undergraduate open university maths courses:

• MT365 Graphs, networks and design
• M208 Pure Mathematics
• MST209 Mathematical methods and models
• MS221 Exploring mathematics

Radio

The Serious Change Radio Documentary is a radio program I made over 7 months as I followed a group of people trying to save the economy. I worked with 105 Radio for a year, interviewing scientists on the subject of climate change.

Comics

I drew the pictures for this comic book. You can see all the pictures on this little website I put together.

Here's a website I made about comics. It has reviews of books analysing comics. It has detailed illustrated notes on the history of comics. It has a project where I met new people and then illustrates that meeting in drawings.

Point of interest

Before all of this technology and writing I earned a first in physiotherapy from the University of Leeds.

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