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- Data Intelligence Team: Leading and managing efforts to improve and enhance Nielsen anomaly detection pipelines. Developing further methodologies to expand Data Quality into other areas of Nielsen data collection and measurement.

- Data Intelligence Team: Working to ensure data quality within the Nielsen pipelines and creating anomaly detection systems to flag potential areas of investigation.

- Smart TV Team: Understanding and creating Universe Estimates of Smart TV ownership and across the US, utilised in the Smart TV data collection pipeline and non-linear measurement.- Local TV Team: Undertaken various projects in audience tuning behaviour modelling, code migration and refactoring to efficiency and lower costs of ongoing projects, stratified sample creation for testing and analysis purposes, and helped with the automation of panel weighting.

Metis is a 12 Week Full Time Data Science Bootcamp - focusing on Machine Learning, Programming, Statistical Analysis and Data Communication. Throughout the bootcamp, I developed skills programming in Python across 5 projects using data acquisition, exploratory data analysis, supervised and unsupervised learning, data visualization and natural language processing.Projects include (please see full details below); 1. Using MTA Turnstile data to optimize the location of potential street teams at subway stations across NYC.2. Predicting match scores using linear regression 3. Categorizing wine based on physicochemical properties4. Recommending vacation destinations based on people's interests5. Investigating immigration data to predict whether a permanent residency application in the USA will be accepted.

- Administrative role working with a customized data system, handling and organizing personal and confidential data.- Compiled, prepared and reviewed appropriate prosecutor and defendant documentation for court hearings.- Collaborated with prosecution and court teams.- Courses undertaken in Data Protection, Equality and Diversity and Fire Safety. - Gained team work, verbal and written communicational skills, organizational skills and ability to keep to strict deadlines.

- Experience with modeling environmental scenarios, for example groundwater flow calculations, modeling landslide and lava flow hazards- Experience with data collection, analysis and reporting- Designed and undertaken individual laboratory and fieldwork based projects- Laboratory: Examining igneous rock origins using a petrological microscope- Field: International fieldwork experience constructing previous landscapes based on paleontological evidence and studying unique, native geology in Victoria, Australia. Assessing hydrogeological processes and coastal management techniques across England.