Shishank_CMU

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TSWD-portfolio-templates

These portfolio templates are for setting up your Telling Stories with Data site. Edit these pages and add new ones as needed.
It’s always helpful to keep track of your web URL. Consider putting that somewhere on your page for easy reference:

Portfolio

Graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University | Public Policy| Military Leader| Statecraft- International Relations and Responsible AI enthusiast | wannabe giver and provider

This is my public portfolio for Telling Stories with Data at CMU! Here’s where all my cool work will go. You should probably hire me.

About me

Hi! I’m Shishank Sharma (he/him), a graduate student in the Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) program at Carnegie Mellon University. With a background in data analytics, strategic communication, and leadership, I’m passionate about leveraging data storytelling to solve complex global challenges. My professional journey includes service as an Indian Army officer and recent experience as a Data Intern with the Information Management Unit at the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA/DPO), where I focused on creating impactful visualizations and dashboards to inform peacekeeping operations.

What I hope to learn

Build advanced skills in data storytelling and visualization to make complex ideas simple and engaging.

Explore creative tools and platforms (like Tableau, GitHub, and interactive dashboards) to share insights effectively.

Strengthen my ability to communicate data-driven narratives for real-world policy and decision-making.

Portfolio

Visualizing Government Debt

Critique by Design

final-project-part-one

final-project-part-two

Examples

You can keep this section for stuff from in-class demos or your other work, or remove it.

Google Colab Analysis on Paid Holidays Across the world https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16PAI7rSbVtTQODAXmdRsmjBz6bNOHmlJ?usp=sharing

Assignment: Visualizing overnment Debt

For this assignment, make sure you set up and link to a new page. This page is linking to a new Markdown document called visualizing-government-debt.md. For links to Markdown files in your repository, you can just include the name of the page without the .md extension.

Assignment 3&4: Critique by Design

For this assignment, make sure you set up and link to a new page. This page is linking to a new Markdown document called critique-by-design.md.

Final project

Here it might be helpful to include a high-level description of your final project. Part I Part II Part III(final-project-part-three)

Other stuff you can do (you can remove this section - it’s just for your reference.)

Changing text

You can change text, like this:

Here’s some bold text. Here’s some italic text. Here’s some strikethrough text.

Creating tables

You can build tables like this:

Name Type of pet Favority activity 1 FA 2 FA 3 FA 4
Eli cat Sleeping Eating Being pet Plotting to overthow dog empire
Howard dog You You You Eating
Frankenstein fish Swimming Eating Blowing bubbles Forgetting

An easy-to-use template generator tool can be found here

You can use different headings, like this:

Here’s a large title (H1)

Here’s a subtitle (H2)

…and so on (H3)

You get the idea - just don’t forget the space between the # and your title. #Title won’t work, but # Title will.

Adding images

Here’s an example of how to add an image to my portfolio.

funny dog picture

Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash

Alternately, you can set the size of the image using just a bit of HTML:

Remember that you’ll need to upload the image into your repository, or include a link to the image somewhere else.

Setting up a separate page

So here’s the code you’ll need to add to your own site to create a second page.

  1. First, create a new page in your repository (for example, dataviz1.md)
  2. Next, add a link to that page by inserting the following into your readme.md page:

[title](dataviz) or [dataviz](https://cmustudent.github.io/portfolio/dataviz.html) or [CMU](https://www.cmu.edu)

Any of those formats will work. Here’s some examples of working links:

[title](dataviz) = title
[dataviz](https://cmustudent.github.io/portfolio/dataviz.html) = dataviz
[CMU](https://www.cmu.edu) = CMU

Make sure to check these from your publicly accessible URL to make sure they’re working correctly (not from the preview tab).

Looking for more? A nice Markdown guide can be found here

References

List any references you used here.

AI acknowledgements

If you used AI to help you complete this assignment (within the parameters of the instruction and course guidelines), detail your use of AI for this assignment here.