Personal Projects

Free Grocery Store

A mutual aid pantry based in Gainesville, FL, started in its current capacity in March 2020.

Renz held by other FGS volunteers

FGS

gnvfgs.org

@gnvfgs on Instagram

Methali ya leo

A tiny little project that generates a methali from a list from the University of Illinois. Methalis are Swahili sayings about life, often with sassy intent especially when used by elders. A lil practice project in JS and web scraping.

MYL

Evictions in Alachua County (updated!)

Updated methodology, analysis, and results from the study on 20 years of Alachua County evictions.

AC-EVICTIONS-DEC2022

The Blueberry Farm

Background genealogical and historical research into a plot of land on the Kincaid Loop being planned for redevelopment.

Post logging image of the blueberry farm

KINCAID

Post-Burn Dashboard

Visualization of data from an fire ecology study undertaken in Central Florida from 2020-2022. Written in R using tidyverse and Shiny.

Screenshot of post-burn dashboard depicting stem length comparisons

POSTBURN

Evictions in Alachua County

A project with the ACLC to identify eviction-prone areas and their social determinants.

Evictions by block group in Alachua County

AC-EVICTION

Foodshed of Alachua County

A project to a) find food deserts and food swamps in Gainesville and Alachua County, and b) map the informal foodshed of the east side food desert.

Food deserts of Alachua County

AC=FOODSHED

Farm 2 Neighbors

A mutual aid project (2020-2022) to divert farm excesses to residents of the food desert the farm operates in.

Renz and Brackin on the Farm 2 Neighbors truck

F2N

@farm2n on Instagram

Racialized Impacts of New Construction

A dashboard created for my web-mapping class to visualize new construction in Gainesville neighborhoods.

Screenshot of Gainesville construction dashboard.

GNV-CONSTRUX