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I'm passionate about data science, basketball, and telling stories.
I'm always learning new tools.
Here is a list of tools I currently use:
Below is a list of my work and educational experience.
------ Work with Databases (MySQL)
------ Utilize data visualization tools (Looker)
------ Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
------ Audit data to validate accuracy
------ Find patterns and make recommendations
------ Web scrape customer reviews for Natural Language Processing analysis
------ Produce weekly, monthly, quarterly reports for executive team
------ Create of websites using WebFlow & custom code to the client's expectations
------ Sketch basic concepts, creating draft websites, making revisions as requested by client
------ Understand standard SEO principles integrated into websites
------ Integrate user login portal for members to access private content and chat on a forum
------ Source photography and media
------ Manage CMS of employees, blog/news articles, organize website content
------- Write and deliver several articles under tight deadlines covering topics ranging from environment, politics and science
------- Produce quality video and photography assets to accompany digital stories
------- Write and deliver several articles under tight deadlines, also covering topics ranging from environment and politics
------- Produce quality video and photography assets to accompany digital stories
Full-time (12-week) immersive, project-based program covering the fundamentals of data science including:
- Methods of collecting, accessing and storing data with relational databases
- Best practices of data visualization
- Exposure to cutting-edge applications of data science, including neural networks, deep learning, advanced machine learning methods, and model evaluation
- Analysis for data science using Python programming language and its relevant packages, analysis of data sets with statistical methods and tests
- Big data fundamentals using cloud based technology and the Hadoop ecosystem
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Basic web skills:
- HTML & CSS, as well as the Bootstrap framework and Flexbox to build websites
- Build own static webpage
- Have an understanding of how the presentation languages of CSS & HTML work together to structure and design web pages
- Design complex features like carousels and navigation bars to their sites
- Able to build response websites and make use of Bootstrap and Bootsrap themes to make elegant and modern looking webpages
- Introduction to JavaScript
View program details here
The program gave me the practical training that allowed me to start working in the field immediately after graduating. From day one, the nuts and bolts of reporting are drilled into students, and you're taught to produce newsworthy stories in a timely fashion.
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