Hassel is a Costa Rican data analyst and editor. Her passion is helping journalists extract valuable information from numbers and turn it into public interest reports, with effective and creative data visualization and storytelling that enhances the content’s quality.
She is a professor in Data Analytics and Data Visualization in the Master’s in Digital Journalism program at the University of Guadalajara, in Jalisco, Mexico. She is also a trainer at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and an advisor in independent media and civil society organizations in Latin America.
Hassel considers herself a constant and curious learner of visualization and analysis methods and techniques.