Libby Harkins
Analytics Engineer and Product Lead
Libby provides support with the design and delivery of many of Data Orchard's products and services, including data strategy, data asset mapping, facilitating workshops and training. She has specialist skills and experience in data engineering, data science, coding, and analysis.
In particular, Libby oversees the performance and development of our Data Maturity Assessment products. Her responsibilities include customisation, validation, data quality, benchmarking and analysis.
Within Data Orchard, Libby leads on maintaining the security of our IT infrastructure and is always looking out for where she can automate data flows and processes to make us more efficient.
Libby studied Psychology and graduated from Glasgow University with a First Class BSc. She is particularly interested in how data can be clearly communicated and (mis)understood. And she has a healthy obsession with R.
Whilst mostly based in London, she loves to explore new places and is a keen slow/flight-free traveller.
Libby can help with…
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• Set-up and technical support
• In-depth custom analysis, including internal and external benchmarking
• Workshops and advice to help you get the most from your assessment -
• Creating data asset registers
• Mapping assets in terms of size, location, importance – to help you visualise and prioritise data management -
• Designing processes of data cleaning / data workflow
• Writing programmes to automate the movement of data and execute some data cleaning processes
• R packages and programmes for:
- Reproducible analytical pipelines
- Shiny apps for data manipulation at a no-code level -
• R packages and programmes for:
- High quality, reproducible quantitative analysis
- Clear and stylised data visualisations
- Interactive dashboards (using Shiny)