Hi! I'm Lydia

Lydia Kidwell's headshot

Welcome to my portfolio website! I'm an environmental data analyst living in Reston, VA with my husband and our cat. I discovered my passion for data analysis during my time at Timmons Group as a Project Engineer on the Economic Development team. That, combined with my B.S. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech (go hokies!), has lead me to pursue a career in environmental data analysis.

My husband and I moved to northern Virginia in August 2024, and I took that as an opportunity to pivot from civil engineering to data analysis. Since then, I have been taking online courses on Udemy and Linkedin Learning to develop my data analysis skills, participating as candidate in the Hiring Our Heroes Military Spouse Career Accelerator Pilot (MSCAP) Fellowship, volunteering with the Feline Foundation of Greater Washington and Pet FBI, and exploring data through personal projects. Speaking of my personal projects, check out my favorite projects below or look at them all on my projects page!

P.S. This is my cat, Steve French, he's the best. He likes to help out when I'm working.

Fluffy orange cat, Steve French, sitting in on my desk.

Featured Projects

Web Accessibility:

Data Processing and Exploration
Pie

The purpose of this project was to analyze the web accessibility errors present on the most commonly visited websites. In order to complete this... Read More

Trump's Campaign Funding:

Search Through Donald Trump Contributors
Tableau

The Mission of the FEC is, "to protect the integrity of the federal campaign finance process by providing transparency and fairly enforcing and administering... Read More