What I do
Current
Deck Technologies, Data Engineer
Open Source Software
Contributor, sendgridr package, October 2021
Author, covid19us (on CRAN, RStudio March 2020 Top 40 Packages) and covid19france (on CRAN) packages, March 2020
Author, votesmart package, March 2020
Author, multicolor package, July 2018 (accepted to CRAN August 2018)
Author, postal package, June 2018 (accepted to CRAN July 2018)
Co-author, rOpenSci monkeylearn package, February 2018
Co-author, rOpenSci roomba package, May 2018
Co-author, cowsay package, June 2018
Co-author, rlangtip package, March 2019
Reviewer, gitignore package, May 2019
Reviewer & contributor, rOpenSci oec package, June 2018, August 2018
Contributor, tradestatistics project, January 2019
Contributor, owmr package, October 2018
Contributor, rOpenSci rodev package, October 2018
Contributor, beepr package, May 2018
What I Use
- R
- git, GitHub, BitBucket
- SQL (MySQL, Postgres)
drakefor reproducible workflow management- Continuous integration on Travis and Appveyor
- Unit testing with
testthat, code coverage on Codecov - Containerized environments with Docker
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)
- Some Python, Shiny, Spark
- The bare minimum of JavaScript, HTML, CSS :)
Past
Earlybird Software, Data Scientist
At the beginning of a project I was typically involved in ETL from existing data stores and third-party sources. This usually meant integrating with one or several APIs, scraping websites, and cleaning and deduping data stored in spreadsheets and text files.
Over the lifespan of a project, I figured things out about this data and presented these findings to stakeholders. Depending on the question, that spanned the gamut from clustering customers to sussing out the network relationships between different business locations to training models with the aim of predicting people’s future behavior.
Experience and Cognition Lab, University of Chicago, Lab Manager
I ran traditional hypothesis tests and other statistical analyses on experimental data collected in the lab. I also contributed to the design of experiments, tended to the lab webiste, and programmed online experiments run on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Behavioral Biology Lab, University of Chicago, Research Fellow
I designed a behavioral economics experiment to separate baseline risk preference from irrational risk aversion. The approach subtly varied risk and expected values in a novel gambling game I wrote in Python. We also measured participants’ physiological levels of stress hormones to study the effect of stress on decision making under uncertainty.
Education
University of Chicago
Degree: Bachelor of Arts (2015) with general and departmental honors in Psychology; minor in French Literature. June 2015.
Honors: Lillian Gertrude Selz Prize for Academic Excellence (2012), Dean’s List (2011–’15), Phi Beta Kappa honors society (2014)
Honors Thesis, Behavioral Economics: An Exploration of Stress, Gender, and Risk Preference in Financial and Prosocial Domains
Talks, Articles, etc.
Political Data Engineering Open Mic hosted by Data for Progress, Deck’s work to learn more about individual ballot rejections in Florida talk, remote, October 2020.
New York R Conference, Web Scraping with rvest and Selenium half-day workshop, remote, August 2020.
New York R Conference, Using the Twitter and Google APIs to Track Fires in NYC talk, New York, NY, May 2019. [Video].
Chicago R Unconference, mentor on the rtip package along with Jim Hester and David Smith, Chicago, IL, March 2019
RLadies NYC, “drake for Workflow Happiness in R” talk, source code, New York, NY, February 2019
“A package for tidying nested lists” article on developing roomba, June 2018
rOpenSci unconf, co-author of the roomba package, Seattle, WA, May 2018
Data Skeptic Beer-in-Hand Data Science article, February 2018
rstudio::conf 2018 Diversity Scholarship, San Diego, CA
“Sentiment analysis of Slack reviews using R” article, source code, July 2018
“Monkeying around with Code and Paying it Forward” article on contributing to monkeylearn, April 2018
Interview at Earlybird Software, December 2017
RLadies Chicago, “Oktoberfest Edition: Beer-in-Hand Data Science” talk, Microsoft Technology Center, October 2017
Chicago Women’s Ultimate Summit, “Women in Chicago Ultimate Data Analysis”, Chicago, IL, February 2017
Other Orgs
Volunteer, Statistics without Borders, 2019-present
Reviewer, DataKind, 2019-present
2018 class of NASA Datanauts, January 2018
Former Co-Organizer, RLadies Chicago, 2017-2018
Captain, UChicago Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team, 2015