Education

Master of Library and Information Science, Informatics specialization
University of California, Los Angeles
Awarded showcase portfolio distinction

Bachelor of Arts, English
University of California, Los Angeles

Professional experience

Intelligence Analyst
National Research Council Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Product Lead, Data Management Planning
Digital Research Alliance of Canada
Remote, Canada

GIS and Data Services Librarian
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Acting Head, Digital Scholarship Lab/Map, Data & GIS Library
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Data Visualization and GIS Librarian
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas, United States

Workshops

Introduction to Data De-Identification
Data Sharing and Reuse
Introduction to ggplot2
Introduction to QGIS
Tableau for Digital Humanities (graduate and undergraduate)
Introduction to Tableau
Data Cleaning in OpenRefine

Professional service

Technical Peer Reviewer
Advanced Research Consortium (ARC)

Peer Reviewer
Access 2022 Conference

Instructor
Software Carpentry, 2019 - present

Lesson Maintainer, OpenRefine for Social Sciences
Data Carpentry, 2020 - 2021

Editor-at-Large
dh+lib, 2019 - 2021

Mentor
UCLA Library and Information Science Alumni Association, 2019 - 2020

Peer Reviewer
Digital Humanities 2020

Publications

Book chapters

Ossom-Williamson, P., Williams, S., Khan, Hammad Rauf. (2022). Software Carpentry al dente: Rendering tech training for online artisans. In M. Brodsky and K. Grossman (Ed.) Data Literacy Cookbook. Chicago, Illinois: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Peer-reviewed articles

Ossom-Williamson, P., Williams, S., Kim, K., Kindratt, T. (2021). Reporting and availability of COVID-19 demographic data by US health departments, April 2020: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. https://doi.org/10.2196/24288

Conference presentations

Williams, S. (2022, August). Occasional practices: exploring data practices in and outside the academy. Presented at the Feminist Digital Methods Conference, York University. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2021, November). Exploring humanities GIS. Presented at GIS Day 2021, Statistics Canada. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2021, November). GIS. Presented at Innovative Research Methods in Gerontology, Canadian Association on Gerontology. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2021, November). StoryMapping Queer Dallas. Presented at GIS Days 2021, Western University. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2020, November). Teaching towards justice: data justice in library instruction. Presented at the 2020 Digital Library Federation Forum. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2020, October). Building together: community and collaboration as data literacy competencies. Presented at the Southwest Data Librarian Symposium. Webinar.

Williams, S. (2020, October). Teaching humanities data science. Presented at the Midwest Data Librarian Symposium. Webinar.

Williams, S., Ossom-Williamson, P. (2020, August). Library hack: developing data literacy through experiential learning. Presented at Cross Timbers Library Conference. Webinar.

Khan, H.R., Williams, S., Ossom-Williamson, P. (2020, August). Project management and research: enabling successful partnerships and projects. Presented at Cross Timbers Library Conference. Webinar.

Ossom-Williamson, P., Khan, H.R., Williams, S. (2020, August) Data services in an age of scalability and a pandemic. Presented at Cross Timbers Library Conference. Webinar.

Skills

Data: R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, DAX, Microsoft Excel, OpenRefine, Datawrapper, Git

GIS: ArcGIS, QGIS, Carto

Platforms: GitHub, Slack, Asana, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams