Professional Experience
GitHub San Francisco, CA
Data Scientist 2017-present
Data Scientist 2017-present
- Analyzed data and provided insights to make strategic product decisions
- Wrote internal reports to gain a better understanding of GitHub customers and their needs
- Led efforts to centralize and organize analytic insights at GitHub to provide greater transparency and discovery of previous work
Insight Data Science Palo Alto, CA
Data Science Fellow 2017-2017
Data Science Fellow 2017-2017
- Built Highlightr, a python based web app to predict the top highlights in Medium.com articles
- Collected over 1600 articles using Selenium and BeautifulSoup, stored the data in PostgreSQL, and cleaned the data in Python
- Trained a Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier to identify sentences in an article most likely to be the top highlight, performing 105% better than chance
- Developed an interactive web app with the model using Python and Flask
California State University, Channel Islands Camarillo, CA
Lecturer 2016-2017
Lecturer 2016-2017
- Taught over 100 undergraduate students in and developed curriculum for statistics, social movements, and political sociology
- Conveyed complex statistical concepts in easy to understand ways for students new to statistics
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
Postdoctoral Scholar 2015-2016
Postdoctoral Scholar 2015-2016
- Led quantitative data analysis strategy in a collaborative environment for a project studying how online participation shapes youth political advocacy
- Developed Stata and R scripts to clean, merge, and analyze data on nearly 4,000 websites
- Analyzed cleaned data using a variety of regression models and generated visualizations to convey complex results in straight-forward ways
- Communicated results of our analyses to a variety of academic and non-academic audiences
Education
University of California, Irvine - June 2015
Ph.D. Sociology; Field Exams: Social Network Analysis, Social Movements
University of California, Irvine - September 2009
M.A. Sociology
University of Texas at Dallas - May 2006
B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies - Physics & Chemistry Education