Forrest Hangen Email & Phone Number

Rochester, NY, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I'm passionate about making the world more equitable. I developed a research program funded bythe National Science Foundation using big data to examine inequities in housing.Dissertation: Landlords’ Financial Motives and Legal Responsibilities: Using Urban Informatics to Model Landlords’ Management Strategies

I taught a graduate-level course called Big Data for Cities: curriculum in urban informatics, focusing on the analysis and application of large-scale digital datasets to address urban policy challenges.Skills taught in R include: data cleaning, merging data, creating new measures from naturally-occurring data, descriptive statistics, inferential.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I developed end-to-end data cleaning and processing pipelines including text cleaning, geo-coding,feature extraction, etc. For example, I wrote a Python web-scraper to collect 311 reports, made apipeline in R to clean and standardize text data, geo-code to census geographies, create measures ofneglect & disorder, and published public data and documentation.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

TA for Big Data for Cities, Geographic Information Systems, and Philosophy, Identify, and Technology

Rochester, New York Area

Worked one-on-one with Dr. Ron Rogge. First author on two research articlesexploring the commitment structures of relationships and sexual attitudes. Responsibilities include preparing study materials, cleaning data in SPSS, running analyses in SPSS, researching a comprehensive literature review, and co-writing introduction, methods, results, and discussion.

Rochester, New York Area

Worked as a Research Assistant in Dr. Harry Reis’s Lab. Responsibilities includedrunning participants through studies, training other RAs on procedures, designing andimplementing an automated data input program, participating in lab meetings, coding individuals’ responses, and providing feedback for new studies.

Rochester, New York Area

Full-time summer position. Worked on a five-student team to plan, organize and lead theOrientation Program for the incoming class of 2020 at the University of Rochester. Dutiesincluded: Planning all programs and events for a week-long orientation. Coordinating withvarious offices and departments on campus. Designing and preparing for publication.

Rochester, New York Area

Livonia, NY

Instructor for Python programming courses. Courses include: Intro to Python Programming,Tedious Task Automation with Python, Machine Learning Fundamentals, and more. Developed teaching and learning materials from scratch.

Remote

Curate high-quality posts to be featured on Medium. Emphasis on Programming and Data Science topics.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Public Policy

Master Of Public Policy - Mpp

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Double Major In Psychology And Russian

Education record

Bolton, MA