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Natasha’s TSWD Portfolio
Welcome! This is my public portfolio for Telling Stories with Data at CMU - Spring 2025
Web page URL: https://natashapawar.github.io/dataviz-portfolio/
About Me
🪷 Name: Natasha Pawar
⭐ Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
👩🏻🎓 Eduation: Master of Entertainment Industry Management, Carnegie Mellon University
🎥 Currently (Re)Watching: White Collar (for the 5th time)
📖 Currently Reading: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Growing up, I’ve always been captivated by stories — they’ve been the guiding force in everything I’ve chosen to pursue. In my undergraduate years at UC Davis, I studied Psychology, Communication, and Human Development, fields that explore the intricacies of human behavior and interaction. I wanted to learn the “why” behind people’s decisions, a foundation that proved invaluable during my ~2 years working in consulting for the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications sector. Whether developing strategies or analyzing trends, I continued to find myself drawn to the power of stories, those of consumers, businesses, and industries, and how they could inform impactful decisions.
Now, as a graduate student at CMU pursuing a degree in the Entertainment Management sector, I have the unique opportunity to blend together both the creativite and analytical facets of storytelling. Upon graduation, I hope to pursue a career in strategy, consumer insights, or acquisitions and development for TV/streaming. I’m passionate about creating stories that resonate, whether through analyzing data to understand an audience or helping bring a new series to life and I look forward to learning and further developing my skillset in the weeks to come!
What I Hope to Learn
Through the course of the Telling Stories with Data class, I seek to explore how different narratives can emerge from the same data set and how this can shape decision making. In addition to this, I hope to:
- Build my understanding of GitHub and Tableau
- Refine my skills in critiquing and analyzing data
- Develop compelling and persuasive data visualizations for different audiences
Portfolio
Assignment 1: Visualizing Government Debt
This assignment explores uses Tableau to explore different ways of visualizing government debt.
Assignment 3 & 4: Critique by Design
This assignment uses Stephen Few’s Data Visualization Effectiveness Profile to critique a pre-existing visualization, as well as suggests an updated method of showcasing key data, retelling the story in a different way.
Final Project
My final project is titled, “From Print to Picture: Analyzing the Impact of Book-to-Movie Literary Adaptations” and it explores the positive effects of adaptations on the film industry and the publishing industry, common issues that arise in the adaptation process and methods for entertainment industry professionals to support sustainable and equitable efforts to adapted content.