Data Science
Sanctions Explorer
A website constructed for our client, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, that allows users to search through current and historical sanctions data. Worked as a Data Scientist in an 8-member remote team to construct this website from scratch over the course of six weeks. I accomplished many tasks during this time, including (a) designing endpoints for the frontend; (b) wrangling the data and making additional key features; (c) scraping UN Panel of Expert reports and making them searchable.
(Link and GitHub not available; the code is owned by the client and they are not ready for the site to be publicly accessed)
Predicting NBA Assists
An app that predicts assists per game totals for all NBA players during the 2019-2020 season. I developed this myself over the course of 4 days, using data from https://www.basketball-reference.com and applying a Ridge Regression model for the predictions.
Built using Plotly Dash and Python 3 (Jupyter notebooks).
| Link | GitHub |
Suggest.It Subreddit Locator
An app where users submit a Reddit post, and get shown suggested subreddits that would be appropriate for that post. I was a Data Engineer on a 9-member remote team; my fellow Data Engineer and I wrote a Flask app to connect the web frontend with the predictive model.
Built using Python 3; data obtained from the Reddit API.
| Link | GitHub |
Spotify Song Suggester
An app where users select their favorite songs and get a list of other recommended songs, in addition to data on the songs in question. I was a Machine Learning Engineer on a 10-member remote team. My fellow ML Engineers and I performed K-cluster analysis to get the suggested songs and wrote code to dynamically construct aesthetically pleasing visualizations for each song data.
Built using Python 3 (Jupyter notebooks); data obtained from the Spotify API.
| Link | GitHub |
Analyzing US Home and Rent Prices
I analyze data for median home sale and rent listing prices, and find both obvious and surprising results.
Built using Python 3 (Google Collaboratory).
| Link | Medium | GitHub |
Philosophy
The Origin of Power in the Need to Cooperate: Parallels Between Political and Economic Power
My doctoral dissertation; I argue that both political and economic power are based on the need for people to follow common rules and/or leaders in order to cooperate with each other.