Chad Skelton
Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Skelton is an instructor and data journalist with 12 years of professional experience, teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University while consulting as a data visualization and AI trainer. He spent nearly two decades at The Vancouver Sun honing narrative-driven charts and maps, and has taught adjunct courses at the University of Florida. Chad combines journalism rigor with a Master's in Information Management to translate messy data into clear visual stories and practical AI training programs. He runs his own consulting practice focused on hands-on workshops and bespoke visualizations, and has recently formalized work as an Artificial Intelligence Trainer and Consultant. Based in Vancouver, he’s known for blending storytelling, cartography and tooling—essentially a “nerd for hire” who helps organizations operationalize data and model-driven workflows.
12 years of coding experience
Master's Degree Information Management, Master's Degree Information Management at Dalhousie UniversityBachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism Journalism, Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University
Github Skills (10)
tabula7
pdf7
csv7
pdf-files6
excel6
datatables5
fusion3
datatable3
javascript2
api2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chadskelton/data
May 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
chadskelton/hydro
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Hydro Outage Alerts
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
alertshydrooutage
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