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Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

• Develop and maintain a web scraping script to extract parliament recording videos from ParlVU, ensuring consistent and accurate data retrieval.
• Utilize Python and libraries such as BeautifulSoup and requests to automate the scraping process, handling various formats and data structures efficiently.
• Manage a YouTube channel by uploading scraped videos, and optimizing titles, descriptions, and tags to increase visibility and engagement.
• Contribute to the dissemination of parliamentary information, enhancing public access and transparency through digital platforms.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed and executed a comprehensive pipeline for SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) data analysis, incorporating data preprocessing, filtering, and feature selection.
• Calculated Minor Allele Frequency (MAF) and applied thresholds to filter SNPs, enhancing the accuracy and relevance of the genetic data.
• Applied LassoCV for feature selection and model evaluation, identifying significant SNPs correlated with phenotypic data.
• Combined metadata and filtered, normalized genotype data into a cohesive dataset, facilitating downstream analysis and interpretation.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed and implemented a comprehensive feature selection and genetic algorithm framework for microbial data analysis.
• Utilized advanced statistical methods (ANOVA, Chi-squared, Mutual Information, PCA, Dictionary Learning) to select the top 50 features from a microbial dataset.
• Designed and executed a genetic algorithm to optimize feature selection, enhancing model performance and data interpretation.
• Applied Python and machine learning libraries (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, DEAP) to streamline data processing and analysis.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

• Created a user-friendly interface for a healthcare information platform, featuring a navigation menu, main option buttons, descriptive paragraph, and quick link functionality.
• Implemented JavaScript for dynamic link addition, an assistance overlay, and backend communication for code modification, enhancing user experience and functionality.
• Utilized Express.js and Axios for backend development, facilitating interaction with OpenAI's GPT-3.5 model to modify code elements based on user queries.
• Contributed to two academic papers using research findings.

Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

• Conducted Twitter data analysis using advanced NLP techniques, including LDA topic modeling.
• Optimized model performance with visualization tools and coherence scores.
• Presented findings at my university conference, earning acclaim for the depth of research and clarity of presentation.