Alex McPhee
Prairie Heart Maps
Résumé
Experience
2022-date // Digital Cartographer // Mainstreet Research
- Editorial cartographer for iPolitics and QP Briefing
- Newsroom data analysis and visualization
- Graphics created for current events in Canada and the world
2022-date // Webmaster // Polling Canada
- Developed the Polling Canada website from scratch
- Open public resource with best-in-class data visualization
- 10,000+ hits a week
2021 // Federal Candidate // New Democratic Party
- First cartographer nominated by a Canadian political party
- Raised $34,000, earned Elections Canada rebate
- Supported other Sask. campaigns with maps and data
2020-2022 // Research Assistant // Future Energy Systems
- Created various scientific figures for publication
- Wildfire spread modeling, agriculture residue bio-energy, ecological citizen science...
2019 // Research Assistant // Univ. of Alberta Froese Group
- Mapped permafrost degradation in Northern Canada
- Two weeks of subarctic field experience in Sahtu region, NWT
2018 // Environmental Student // Seven Generations Energy
- Used enterprise GIS for cartography, environmental monitoring, Indigenous consultation
Published Work
See the rest of this website for more examples.
- Award-winning wall map
- Highly Commended, British Cartographic Society, 2020-21
- Best Reference Map, CaGIS, 2020
- Best in Design (Student), NACIS, 2019
- Built using 100% free software and open data
- More than 250 copies sold
- Same but better
Skills
Print maps // Multi-award-winning
GIS // Thousands of hours experience in QGIS
Data science // Experienced Python user
Web fundamentals // Created this site from scratch
Web interactives // Have published maps and dashboards
Visual artist // Can work as a digital illustrator if necessary
Affiliations
Chair // Val Marie Grain Elevator Committee
Interim Chair // Sask. NDP Ag. & Rural Life Steering Committee
Vice-President // Canadian Cartographic Association
Vice-President // Wood River NDP
Vestryman // St. Stephen's Anglican Church (Swift Current)
Member-at-large // Cypress Hills—Grasslands NDP
Education
2020 // University of Alberta // BSc Geophysics (Spec.)
- Won competitive Undergraduate Research Initiative Stipend ($5,000) for Sask. R.M. boundary reform project