Hi. My name is Jason Weill (pronounced āwhileā). I build open source software for Project Jupyter at AWS. In my spare time, I visualize election data and advocate for more housing. Iāve also written a book on personal finance.
Newest article: āThe New Costs of Not Traveling,ā posted May 13, 2023.
I had planned to visit JupyterCon, the global conference about the projects I work on for a living, in Paris this past week. AWS was a key sponsor of JupyterCon 2023, and we made several big announcements at this conference, including the official debut of Jupyter AI, an open source⦠(read more)
See articles for past articles.
Election Visualizations
In my spare time, I visualize the results of elections in King County, Washington, including the city of Seattle. These maps have been featured in articles on The Urbanist and Capitol Hill Seattle, and have tens of thousands of views on Twitter. All of my visualizations are on my TableauĀ Public profile.
Housing
Iām passionate about making Seattle, my home since 2006, accessible and livable for everyone. I am a supporter of The Urbanist, both financially and with my election visuals. I have also dedicated money to the construction and upkeep of affordable housing through two local organizations, Bellwether Housing and Forterraās Strong Communities Fund I.
Work
Since October 2021, Iāve been a Senior Front End Engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on open source software for Project Jupyter. I joined the JupyterLab Council in 2022.
For information about my work history, see my resume.
Other projects
Since 2017, Iāve been the administrator of Seattleās Pittsburgh Steelers Meetup Group, one of the countryās largest groups for Steelers fans. We meet up to watch games at the Ballard Loft.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 epidemic forced companies to rethink their office strategy, I wrote Work From Home Forever, a list of companies that permit at least employees to WFH in perpetuity. I welcome additions and corrections on its Github repository.
Also check out Weill in Japan, my travelogue from a six-week study abroad and homestay program in Tokyo in 2002, which includes hundreds of photos and thousands of words from the trip.
In 2001 I wrote Livestat, a Perl system for tracking statistics for quiz bowl games. Livestat is available freely and has been used to track many events years after I finished work on the most recent version.