John Paul Gitata Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

Use GIS to address and tackle health problems.

• Main Accomplishments:
• Presented my final year project on predicting and estimating multidimensional child poverty in Kenya with Keras, KNNs, random forest and linear regressor models. Created highly accurate multidimensional child poverty.
• Trained in supervised and unsupervised learning using Scikit-learn and TensorFlow packages to apply ML methods (K-means, SVM and Random Forest) and DL methods (CNN & transfer learnings) to classify land cover image.
• Used Google Earth Engine to measure fresh water lakes expansion over time.
• Explored bike planning scenarios by re-balancing bike demands using selected features with OLS regression, Poisson and Random Forest models. Predicted future bikeshare trips based on observed bikeshare ridership.
• Conducted data analysis in R to predict urban renewal neighborhoods in the housing sector.Skills Developed:☆ Remote Sensing☆ Feature Engineering☆ Exploratory Data Analysis☆ Machine Learning

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Created Scripts using R and Google Earth Engine to analyze and predict crop yields and disease, carbon stock monitoring and land cover classification.
• Collaborated on and maintained DRSRS geoportal.
• Designed data pipelines using Python and SQL to handle 100+ GB of spatial data.
• Created a data collection app using ReactJS to assist the directorate record and transmit spatial data.
• Technologies used: Python, R, JavaScript, SQL

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Downloading and Interpretation of Satellite imageries such as Landsat imagery, and sentinel-2 with an aim of preparing a quality image assessment report of the best images to be used on the analysis.
• Use of both ArcGIS, QGIS and ERDAS software in band compositing, mosaicking, cereating layer subsets, geo-referencing, reprojection, vectorization, cloud masking as well as performing classification, radiometric and.
• Remote sensing analysis to generate land use/land cover maps, NDVI and Vegetation Change maps using ENVI 5.3, ERDAS, QGIS and R