Hybrid data engineer and scientist aiming to make better policy. Building pipelines and collaborating with Claude these days. A soft spot for politics, history, and the taste of adventure.
Building and refining a RAG app as a personal assistant as I rediscover a favorite RPG of mine, Runescape. Many iterations, trying different LLMs, and refining prompting strategies.
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While consulting for PRAC (a US government anti-fraud agency set up to track pandemic aid fraud) as a data scientist at Elder Research, we built a fraud scoring model for pension claims based on risk metrics in collaboration with PBGC and helped recover $262 million related to improper payments.
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A blog post for Elder Research on ML Operations: how to make sense of a newer domain of expertise and where it fits on the modern data science team.
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20M+ rows of Divvy, CTA, and weather data powering a web app with functioning batch, serving, and speed layers (plus a couple of ML models), built for a Computer Science elective.
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A suite of static and interactive graphs (Altair, Vega, D3) telling the story of Lebanon's economic and food-insecurity crisis from 2019 onward.
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Sentiment analysis over online medication reviews. Neural networks take unstructured patient text and output a satisfaction score, reaching accuracy in line with current research. With Angelo Cozzubo and Noah Selman
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Analyzing tendencies in party switching among 2020 Peruvian parliamentary candidates, with data viz and a Selenium-based crawler. With Andrei Bartra, Angelo Cozzubo, and Marc Richardson
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Using government policy measures and national health and economic indicators to forecast Covid-19 cases and deaths across countries. With Diego Diaz and Piyush Tank
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An interactive map of demographic and trade data across 436 US Congressional Districts and Mexico. Built during my internship at the Embassy of Mexico in the US.
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