Amanda Shaffner Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Data Analysis for the Human Development Institute out of the University of Kentucky.

- Gained practical mastery of Python, Pandas, PostgreSQL, and industry best practices under the guidance of a senior data scientist mentor.- Developed and presented projects involving exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, machine learning, statistical modeling, study design, and statistics/probability.- Produced professional projects from concept to completion including: * Experimental Design and A/B Testing - Comedy vs Drama Movie IMDB scores - Conducted a statistical analysis comparing ratings across different genres of movies. - Thoroughly cleaned and prepared the movie data for rigorous statistical analysis. - Effectively visualized the statistical difference between genres. - Technology: Python, Jupyter, Github, Pandas, Seaborn * Supervised Learning, Classification Task - Fake News: - Designed an end-to-end machine learning model to predict if a news article was fake. - Cleaned and engineered data; built, tuned, and compared several models; tuned best model to specifications. - Synthesized findings and suggestions into a standalone repository and delivered business-oriented presentation. - Technology: Python, Scikit-learn, Plotly, Jupyter, Github

Oakland, California, United States

- Developed and implemented new curriculum for 6th and 7th grade mathematics courses. - Accomplished growth in student learning, measured by pre and post assessments, as well as collecting data on informal assessments and student work.

San Francisco

- Led and managed a small group of 11 staff members, across multiple grades and subjects, to create clear school expectations and agreements.- Collaborated with Culture and Climate Committee Members to provide research based approaches to help school staff improve the culture and climate of the school.- Adapted lessons to online platforms to ensure learning during distance learning.- Collected data, through formal and informal assessments, to adjust lessons, create differentiated content, and ensure rigorous curriculum that led to student learning and growth.

Burlingame, California, United States

- Led monthly collaboration meetings for 7th and 8th grade math teachers.- Used tri-anual data to analyze the needs of various students and improve curriculum. - Designed 7th grade advanced math curriculum for all 7th grade teachers. - Advisor for the Student Mathletes Club and chaperoned yearly state mathletes competition.