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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

Directing 10+ open source data projects with 20+ volunteers, focusing on impactful initiatives for the city of LA. Identifying open-source datasets and spearheading the scope of new projects vital to LA's development. Onboarding and mentoring 10+ new members, teaching essential skills like Git, Python, SQL, API pulls, and data analysis techniques.Key.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Constructed a data pipeline to facilitate the exploration of housing-instability and short-term rentals in the city of LA.

New York, NY, US

Develop impactful research on content strategy and experimentation empowering stakeholders with data-driven recommendations. In parallel, self-build and maintain automated Python pipelines for metrics that are not optimized in traditional dashboarding systems. Deliver regular studio-reporting and postmortems supporting stakeholders across multiple.

Evaluated sustainability marketing messages in fashion using Natural Language Processing and Sentiment analysis. Used PRAW framework to scrape Reddit discussions from two fashion subreddits producing text-datasets. Preprocessed text datasets with company stances and Reddit threads on sustainability for feature selection and classification.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Implemented preliminary regressions identifying relationships between network qualities, risky behaviors, and loneliness obtained from a longitudinal study. Led a team of two synthesizing findings into a comprehensive report offering policy recommendations to Residential Life. Our findings informed of factors of social influence that established risky.

New York, NY, US

Directed a team of 4 fellows on a 13 week project measuring US federal government allocation of PPP loans to CA counties. Established data pipelines analyzing the economic impacts of PPP loans and collaborated with team members to develop an interactive dashboard hosted on AWS using Plotly and Dash. Our report proposed major policy recommendations based on.

Communicated science literature on machine learning application in investment decisions, cognitive biases, and psychological wellbeing to company team.

Hanover, NH, US

Developed an independent research project utilizing a multi-modal approach in recreating a naturalistic positive response within a neuroimaging session. Produced preliminary multivariate linear models from time series brain data using PCA and cross validation. In-progress work is testing a new naturalistic approach in evoking positive emotion for past and.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Measured the effectiveness of a public campaign's outreach synthesizing website traffic data from Google Analytics and caller frequency logs to outreach events. Findings informed that local radio and television press had significant, short term impacts on treatment-seeking behaviors.

Hanover, NH, US

Tutored students in Python and Statistics