Stephen Lanier Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Freelance writer for one of the most read data science blogs in the world. My articles can be found at https://stlanier.medium.com.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Data Science Bootcamp program, completed 5 technical projects including:Image Recognition: Japanese Kuzushiji CharactersNov 2020: | https://github.com/stlanier/Flatiron-School-Capstone-ProjectCNN classifies 513 most common handwritten Japanese characters, tags rare characters. Accuracy: 95% | Dataset Size: ~3 GB● Leveraged Google Colab for faster image processing with GPUs● Experimented with transfer learning, fully convolutional network (FCN) to improve model performanceClassifying Tweets by SentimentSep 2020 | https://github.com/stlanier/Flatiron-School-Module-4-ProjectRandom forest, artificial neural network classifiers sort tweets by positive, negative, neutral emotion. F1 Score: improved from 0.25 to 0.53 | Dataset Size: ~1 MB● Used NLTK for NLP–lemmatization, n-grams, tf-idf vectorization● Applied truncated SVD for dimensionality reduction● Handled class imbalances with SMOTE (class weights for MLP)

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics, Graduation With Highest Distinction

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Carolina, Pielak Chemistry Lab Undergraduate Research

Education record

Year-long exchange, Japanese language intensive