Projects

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Analyzing Music and Emotion with Natural Language Processing

An examination of the changing landscape of song lyric emotion, and how different artists and genres compare

Madison Landlord Lookup Tool

Examining the rental landscape of Madison, Wisconsin

Oscars So White (Again)

Searching for gender parody in Academy Award nominations and winners

Student Loans

An analysis of the student loans industry written for the Northwestern Analytics Research Blog

Professional Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist

Exact Sciences

Jan 2020 – Present Madison, Wisconsin
  • Modeled our sales rep effectiveness using scikit learn to determine the value of calls across health specialties.
  • Built a Tableau dashboard for leadership to track sales targets, target new physicians and analyze customer habits.
  • Coded a fuzzy matching algorithm in Python to join unstructured data in our marketing channel with over 80% recall.
 
 
 
 
 

Data Science Intern

UPS

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 Louisville, Kentucky
  • Created a machine learning model in Python using keras to analyze key driver and route performance measures.
  • Analyzed time-series data in Python to monitor the progress of 250,000 drivers toward their performance goals.
 
 
 
 
 

Reporting Analyst

American Family Insurance

May 2014 – Jun 2018 Madison, Wisconsin
  • Led a team developing a Tableau dashboard to measure the performance of our telematics data program, which directly measured the driving performance of 20,000 customers through a smartphone app.
  • Communicated with Sales teams across all of our operating states to coordinate the rollout of our program and teach them to use the dashboard to find ways for them to effectively sell the discount program in their area.

Education

 
 
 
 
 

Northwestern University

Master of Science in Analytics

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019 Evanston, Illinois

Key Coursework:

  • Data Mining
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Deep Learning
  • Text Analytics
  • Social Network Analysis
 
 
 
 
 

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics

Aug 2010 – May 2014 Madison, Wisconsin

Accomplish­ments

Runner Up for Best Project

UPS Employee Hackathon Jun 2019
Created an app for managers to geospatially track driving data, and identify difficult route segments.

Best Data Visual

Northwestern University Hackathon May 2019
Using data provided by ABC Supply Co, I created a map that geospatially tracked customer segmentations.

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