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Disaster Response Messages: Natural Language Processing

Completed

March 2019

Description

Implementation of a full data pipeline including ETL and supervised machine learning with natural language processing. A web app was developed to allow users to enter their own messages to be classified.
GitHub Repo


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Global Income Inequality

Completed

February 2019

Description

Development of a data dashboard using Flask for integration with html and Bootstrap for web development. Data is obtained through an API query from World Bank Data and plots are developed with Plotly. The app is hosted on Heroku.
Website
GitHub Repo


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Customer Segmentation

Completed

November 2018

Description

Use of unsupervised learning techniques of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and KMeans to identify customer segements and identify over- and under-represented segments.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Image Classification

Completed

November 2018

Description

Use of transfer learning to build a neural network capable of identifying 102 different flower types with over 85% accuracy. PyTorch used to build the neural network; Python argparse library used to create executable training and prediction scripts.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Tell a Tableau Story: Homelessness in America

Completed

July 2018

Description

Interactive presentation of US homelessness data, including a brief look at causes and solutions. Python (Pandas) used to clean; Tableau used to visualize the results.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Wrangle & Analyze Data: The World of Dogs

Completed

June 2018

Description

Data wrangling of the WeRateDogs tweets including gathering, wrangling and analysis. Gathering included manual and programmatic downloads, and API access. Python (Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, json, os, Requests, and Tweepy) used to clean, analyze and visualize the results.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Predicting Election Results

Completed

June 2018

Description

Explorations of contributions to the 2016 US Presidential Election candidates and the election results. Includes univarite, bivariate, and multivariate EDA with multiple linear regression modelling and testing. R, R Markdown and particularly the ggplot2 library used to visualize and analyze the results.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Analyzing A/B Test Results

Completed

April 2018

Description

Analysis of the conversion rate of a new website compared to an old, including the exploration of a potential interaction with user country. Includes analysis using bootstrapping, traditional t-tesing and linear regression modeling. Python (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scipy) used to visualize and analyze the results.
GitHub Repo


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Female Labor Force Participation and Economic Strength

Completed

April 2018

Description

Examination of the relationship between country economic strength and female labour force and education participation. Python (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scipy) used to visualize results.
Blog Post
Original Project
Updated Project


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Exploring Bikeshare Data

Completed

February 2018

Description

Interactive user experience examining user statistics for bikeshare data in Chicago, New York and Washington. Python used to code original project with code updated to use Pandas.
Blog Post
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Original Project
Updated Project


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Exploring Weather Trends

Completed

February 2018

Description

Examination of temperature trends in six Canadian cities in comparison to global temperatures. Excel used to chart trends and test temperature predictions.
Blog Post
GitHub Repo


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Housing First Supports for Metro Vancouver

Completed

2016 - 2017

Description

Designed, applied for funding, and managed project examining support needs to implement Housing First in Metro Vancouver. Website developed to support community resource identification and publication developed.
Website
Publication


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Homelessness Resources

Completed

2014 - 2017

Description

As the senior staff member of the Greater Vancouver Shelter Strategy Society developed numerous resource to support the homlessness sector. Projects included webinars, implementation guides, research reports.
Resources