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Work Experience

• Data Scientist, Center for Just Journalism

  Dec, 2022 - Present

• Data Scientist, Freelance

  Apr, 2018 - Present

  See "projects" section for selected work.

• Data Scientist (Quality and Integrations), Chatdesk

  Nov, 2018 - Aug, 20223 years 9 months

  Write and maintain code for customer message cleaning and standardization

  • ~1 million weekly messages for 100+ companies in 10+ languages
  • Messages from 12 message sources from all major CRM’s and social networks

  Develop novel strategies to improve data cleaning

  • Implemented Named Entity Recognition to increase flexibility of cleaning code (Spacy)
  • Trained NLP model to classify 6 types of messages at 99.5% accuracy (PyTorch)
  • Deploy code as packages and/or apps for integration with larger code base (GCP, Flask, FastAPI)

  Ad hoc technical responsibilities

  • Write scripts to pull messages for research and backfilling using APIs
  • Manage digital IVR product on Google Cloud and Twilio
  • Conduct data analysis to help our sales team
  • Write and maintain code documentation

• Instructional Associate - Data Science, General Assembly

  Sep, 2018 - Jul, 20223 years 10 months

  Training students in data science methods, concepts and technologies, including: bash, python, data mining, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, model building, forecasting, SQL, AWS and NLP.

• Freelance Writer, Self-Employed

  Dec, 2012 - Dec, 20186 years

  Contributed 100+ articles to Noisey (the music vertical of Vice, with a readership of over 600,000 monthly readers), and 30+ pieces for FACT (1.5 million monthly readers), including long-form, extensively reported articles

  Fostered relationships with artists and other industry contacts to maintain access, followed local scenes and up-and-coming artists to stay informed, and conducted research to find stories and fact-check in-depth reporting

• DJ, Self-Employed

  Dec, 2006 - Dec, 20126 years

  Planned and promoted 200+ events, played 500+ events in 50 markets in three countries.

• Senior Research Technician, NYU School of Medicine, Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

  Sep, 2005 - Apr, 20071 year 7 months

  Using both molecular and computational techniques, searched for the specific point of chromosomal mutations whose locations were only broadly known.

  Developed, codified and taught personal protocols and lab techniques to other researchers doing similar work.

• Laboratory Technician, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

  Dec, 2003 - Dec, 20052 years

  In Dr. Robert Mercer’s lab, explored the behavior of the Na/K pump beta subunit through the creation of chimeric proteins.

Projects Experience

• Tracking Euphemistic Language In Police Violence Reporting (Huffington Post)

  Sep, 2021 - Jan, 20224 months

• The Growing Cost and Shrinking Return of American Policing

  Jan, 2020 - Jun, 20205 months

• Business Metrics Dashboard for New York Adventure Club

  Jun, 2018 - Jun, 20191 year

• Scraping Congressional Finance Data for Sludge

  Feb, 2019 - May, 20193 months

• Investigating Racial Bias in Baltimore Police (Baltimore Fishbowl)

  May, 2018 - Dec, 20187 months

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Education

Volunteer Work