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Cambridge, MA, US

New York, New York, United States

Conceived, developed, and operate the online platform @UmpScorecards, with over 350k followersand 650 million impressions, to assess the performance of Major League Baseball umpires. Utilizestatistical models including Monte Carlo simulations and geometric models of pitch location togenerate proprietary metrics and fully automated graphical scorecards..

Work with numerous governmental open data APIs to build out both stand-alone visualizations anddashboards on the product development team. Build API to programmatically and efficiently accessmultiple Census datasets. Utilize Apache Supersets and Docker in the development process.

Conduct research projects related to affordable housing, national eviction rates, and police overtimebudgets. Analyze Census, HUD, and numerous other complex datasets constructed through webscraping and other techniques. Work with, and create data visualizations for, organizations andinstitutions including the ACLU, AP, and the Massachusetts Legislature’s.

Developed new metrics to evaluate historical defensive performance by employing machine learningtools (tensorflow, MLflow) and probability models. Conducted extensive validation testing andcreated data visualizations to share findings. Allowed the organization to improve player and contract evaluation, especially at the minor league level.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Predicted the cost of a minimum wage increase for over 10k Minor League Baseball players usingregression modeling and other techniques. Built extensive player information databases usingPyBaseball. Created visualizations in R, Tableau, and matplotlib to evaluate and compare MLBDraft classes.