Yevheniia Drozdova

Yevheniia holds a Master's degree in Media and Communications and began her journalism career at a local print newspaper. In 2017, she joined the independent Ukrainian media outlet Texty.org.ua as a data journalist, advancing to Head of Data Journalism Section in 2023.
She specializes in creating interactive data visualizations and maps, working with R and Python for data analysis and JavaScript libraries for interactive visualization development. Her expertise also includes satellite imagery analysis, especially valuable in documenting infrastructure damage and wartime impacts. Yevheniia has presented Texty.org.ua's projects at various journalism and data visualization conferences. Since 2023, she has served as a jury member for the prestigious International Data Journalism Competition The Sigma Awards.