Enthusiastic and dynamic data scientist and statistician with 3+ years of experience leveraging data-driven insights to promote efficient, safe, and positive consumer experiences across social products for tech companies like Google and problem spaces in public health. Driven by a profound passion for revolutionizing how we communicate data to both technical and non-technical audiences, I have been awarded twice for my keen eye for presentation design, and my ability to distill complex concepts and analyses into clear, easy-to-understand presentations.🎤 Karaoke-, anime-, gaming-, writing-, comedy-, and acapella-lover (Check out a cappella senior solo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpFLAZuGz-g&ab_channel=AmherstDQ)!-Notable Data Science Impacts:✨ Data-Driven Entrepreneurship: Successfully led and advocated for the utility of a brand-new anti-spam feature for Android devices using data-driven insights, A/B testing, and strategic and effective communication with diverse senior leadership.✨ Model Optimization: Improved the predictive accuracy of an established microsimulation model against empirical estimates by a root-mean-squared error of ~3% to more accurately inform a tax policy analysis study on tobacco use.Optimized the random forest machine learning algorithm with a 5% improvement in classifying between major rarely distinguishable subtypes of cancer, prioritizing relevant early treatment assignments, and thus improving long-term patient prognosis.✨ Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Curated and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data on success and learning outcomes for underrepresented students in STEM to drive curriculum development and provide actionable insights to leaders in STEM education for 10+ universities.Technical Tools:📊 SQL📊 R (tidyverse, tidyr, dplyr, ggplot2, etc.) 📊 Python (pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, NLTK, Matplotlib, etc.)📊 Tableau📊 Microsoft Power BI📊 Google AnalyticsCore Competencies:👩🏽💻 Statistics & Probability👩🏽💻 Machine Learning👩🏽💻 Hypothesis Testing👩🏽💻 A/B Testing👩🏽💻 Root-cause Analysis👩🏽💻 Regression👩🏽💻 Anti-spam👩🏽💻 Security, Fraud, & Spoofing👩🏽💻 Prediction, Classification, & Clustering👩🏽💻 Survival Analysis👩🏽💻 Multi-state Modeling👩🏽💻 Statistical EthicsSuperpowers:🦸♀️ User-Empathy🦸♀️ Creativity🦸♀️ Thoughtfulness 🦸♀️ Originality🦸♀️ Foresight 🦸♀️ Innovative Thinking
Listed skills include Leadership, R Shiny, Presentation Skills, R, and 59 others.