Yaron Shemesh
Building civic-tech & interactive data tools.
I build interactive tools that make public data, government accountability, and complex ideas understandable — used by journalists, researchers, and tens of thousands of people.
Projects
Simpler Story
A data storytelling platform that turns complex datasets into clear, interactive narratives. Stories built with it have reached over 3 million views in the past year, with features in major outlets like Ynet and N12.
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Who Hears My Car Horn?
An urban data simulator for Tel Aviv that estimates how many residents can hear a car horn from a chosen location using city GIS data.
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Can You Run a News Organization?
A swipe-based newsroom game that lets players experience the tradeoffs between audience attention, advertiser pressure, and editorial judgment.
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Lobby 99
Technical leadership for a crowdfunded public lobbying initiative, including member enrollment, surveys, voting, and participation tools for setting the civic agenda.
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Tracking Politicians' Promises
A promise-tracking platform that collects public commitments by politicians and displays their status on a clear, searchable timeline.
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Wealth Distribution in Israel App
An interactive tool for the Institute for Structural Reforms that helped citizens understand wealth inequality in Israel and compare their own position across key wealth indicators.
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Coalition Agreement Tracking Tool
A public accountability tool for tracking government performance against coalition agreements, designed for citizens, journalists, and researchers.
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Globes Elections Match
A Tinder-style election matcher for Globes that helped voters compare political positions through a more focused economic lens.
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Inequality Simulator
An interactive statistics simulation showing how apparently fair starting conditions can still lead to unequal income distributions.
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Israeli Democracy Index App
An interactive version of the Israel Democracy Institute's annual survey, helping the public explore trust, identity, political attitudes, and democratic indicators.
Israeli National Budget Analyzer
A public budget tool that made Israeli government appropriations and spending easier to explore, compare, and track over time using official Ministry of Finance data.
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The Geo Quiz
A geography game for naming countries and cities, including multiplayer and speech-recognition modes. An early Israeli cities version reached more than 20,000 players.
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The Parliament Map
A one-stop accountability map for Shakuf, bringing together data and reporting about members of parliament in a public-facing interface.
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UniStats
A crowdsourced education data tool used by more than 20,000 Hebrew University students to compare course averages, grade distributions, and standard deviations.
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MATGAR: Social Work Coordination
An online coordination system for a Netanya welfare charity, replacing paper and fax workflows with mapped distribution areas, online forms, and automatically generated delivery routes.
Get in touch
Have a project in mind, or just want to say hello? I'd love to hear from you.
yaron@yaronshemesh.com
I also give talks and lectures on data storytelling and civic tech. Want me to speak at your event? Get in touch.