Alex Weston Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Alkymi is delivering the first Data Inbox to the enterprise, freeing huge volumes of data from email and documents. Through world-class engineering, data science, and machine learning, Alkymi makes data instantly actionable. Learn more at alkymi.io.

Greater New York City Area

A 12-week immersive data science boot camp taught in Python. Focused onmachine learning, statistical modelling, data visualization, and effectivecommunication of results. See selected projects below:MoMA Press Releases - An investigation of 80 years-worth of press releases from the MoMA usingnatural language processing. - Modeled topics using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) - Parsed over 2000 PDFs into machine-readable text - Stored all data in a Mongo database hosted on an AWS EC2 instance - Cleaned and tokenized text with SpacyClassifying Malicious Network Traffic - Classified network flows as either benign or one of eight types of attack. - Compared performance of multiple models (decision tree, random forest,gradient boosting), ultimately using random forest with an F1 score of 0.85 - Combined over and under-sampling to deal with heavy class imbalance - Pulled 450 GB of data from Amazon S3 bucket - Created a Postgres database hosted on EC2 that managed 15 millionrecordsPredicting Second-hand Vinyl Prices - Attempted to predict median second-hand price of vinyl records using datascraped from Discogs. - Modeled data using LASSO regression and over 50 engineered features - Scraped over 60,000 listings from Discogs using BeautifulSoup - Final r-squared of 0.466

Greater Philadelphia Area