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PGP

Graphics reporter at The Washington Post.
M.S. Data Journalism '19 @ Columbia University. Former El Confidencial Data Journalism team, Agencia EFE, The Times. Reporting, data analysis, visualizations and a bit of coding. Also, I used to run 🦄 Journocoders Madrid 🦄

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🏷️Javascript

Jan. '22

Slaveholding members of Congress

More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.

🏷️Javascript, d3.js

Aug. '21

America’s demographics are changing

How has your county shifted? Census data from 2020 shows America is growing, but not equally.

🏷️Javascript, ai2html

Jun '21

Diversity on the bench

Biden nominated as many minority women to be judges in four months as Trump had confirmed in four years

🏷️Javascript, Illustrator

Apr. '21

Population cartogram

2020 Census shows U.S. population grew at slowest pace since the 1930s

🏷️Javascript

Jun '19

COVID-19 health disparities

How the coronavirus exposed health disparities in communities of color

🏷️Javascript, d3.js, ai2html

Nov. '20

2020 election campaign

Amid the pandemic, Trump and Biden traveled most often to Pennsylvania and Florida.

🏷️Javascript

Jun '19

Who's who

Too many candidates are competing to be the Democratic nominee in next year’s presidential election. How well do you know them?

🏷️Python, RiveScript, Dexter

May '19

Ellie, the bot

Ellie is a bot that tells you everything you need to know campaign funding and elections after analyzing data from the FEC.

🏷️QGIS, Illustrator

Apr '19

MTA Vulnerabilities

Spatial analysis that shows how Brighton Beach and Flushing Meadows are two of the most vulnerable areas in the New York City Transit system

🏷️Python, R

Feb '19

Jail on Bond

Jail on Bond is a bot that informs the public about bail and racial disparities in Connecticut’s criminal justice system.

🏷️Mapbox, JS, MapShaper

Nov '18

ICE facilities

A map showing more than 1,000 federal facilities that detain immigrants, including county jails, Bureau of Prisons facilities, and Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) centers.

🏷️Pandas,Leaflet,Scrollama

Oct '18

EMS response times

This scrolly-telling project tracks and analyzes the average EMS response times to different kinds of emergencies in New York City

🏷️Python,APIs

Oct '18

Smog, the bot

[In progress] A bot that analyzes hourly the levels of pollutants in different areas of New York City.

🏷️Pandas,D3.js

Oct '18

Real estate & gubernatorial candidates

An analysis of the concentration of real estate companies’ contributions to gubernatorial candidates in the 2018 election.

🏷️Spreadsheet,APIs

Sept '18

The Celebrity Billboard Project

This crowd-sourced interactive experiment tracks how often famous people are in the media spotlight, according to Wikipedia traffic.

🏷️Spreadsheet,APIs,.ai

Sept '18

A decade of OJA awards

Ten years ago, six stories related to natural disasters were finalists for the 2008 OJAs. But in recent years, mass shootings and terrorism have gained more traction.

🏷️Highcharts.js

March '18

Equal Pay & the Wage Gap in Spain

An interactive tool that shows how many months women need to work to earn the same as men in Spain

🏷️APIs

Feb '18

Coding Like a Girl

A project with a global perspective that investigates and compares technology initiatives that are cracking the gender gap.

🏷️R,.ai,ai2html

Nov '17

Public servants' income inequality

Spanish professors and doctors earn more or less money depending on the region they work. An analysis of income inequality.

🏷️R,Excel,.ai

Nov '17

Paradise Papers investigation

I participated in the investigation of the Paradise Papers coordinated by the ICIJ.

🏷️R,Excel

Oct '17

How Spain has changed since 2000

Spanish population has changed dramatically over the last century. The average Spaniard is older and lives in urban areas.

🏷️APIs,Excel

Sep '17

The spread of fake news in the Catalonian crisis

During the political crisis in Catalonia there was a boom of fake Whatsapp messages. Most of them are fact-checked in this article.

🏷️Scraping,.ai

Oct '17

How music taste changed over the last decades

From pop to reggaeton, here's how music taste changed in Spain in the last half-century.

🏷️R,.ai

Aug '17

The impact of terrorism in Europe

A comparison of the number of terrorist attacks in Europe and the Middle East during the last decade.

🏷️.ai

May '17

Analysing French presidential election

How did the French vote? An analysis of election data from a sociodemographic perspective.

🏷️HTML,CSS,JS,Excel

Jan '17

La Chistera

A project to check factual assertions of public figures to determine the veracity of their statements.

🏷️R,ai2html

Oct '16

The 2016 Spanish general election explained

A classification tree to analyze the factors that influenced the winning party in each Spanish region in the 2016 Spanish general election

🏷️Python

Feb '16

The Right to be Forgotten

An investigation, funded by Journalism Fund, about the current status of the Right to be forgotten on the internet in the EU.

🏷️Excel

Oct '15

$300 million corruption scandal

An investigation about the biggest corruption scandal in Spain involving local government $300 million construction contracts

🏷️Excel

Aug '15

Women in financial leadership positions

An investigation unveils how eight big British banks and financial institutions, such as Rothschild and Barclays, each have less than 10% of their top posts filled by women.

🏷️HTML,CSS,JS

Jan '15

Public money excesses

Football clubs in Spain had a debt of more than 700 million €. Due to their financial situation, most of them stopped paying their taxes to the Spanish Revenue.

🏷️JS,.ai

Nov '14

CrowdTip

A commenting platform prototype designed during 2015 The Times hackhathon to engage readers in the editorial decision-making process.

🏷️Excel,Leaflet

Oct '14

Fallen in the wall

During the 28 years that the Wall divided Berlin into two sides, 138 people died trying to cross it; 121 men, 8 women and 9 children.