Translating Nerd
A Data Science Quest
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Matt currently is a global lead instructor for General Assembly's Data Science Immersive program in ten cities across the U.S and most enjoys bridging the gap between theoretical statistics and real-world insights. Matt is a recovering politico, having worked as a data scientist for a political consulting firm through the 2016 election. Prior to his work in politics, he earned his Master’s degree in statistics from The Ohio Sta...
A couple months ago Andres Meneses and I sat down at a busy Adams Morgan cafe in the heart of Washington, DC to discuss his success as a frontend developer. Incredible to his story is how he navigated from a successful long-term position at The World Bank to a coding boot camp to gain a foothold in the web development world. His background is one of the many success stories popping up from mid-career individuals making a jump into ...
One of the world's top data science boot camps, General Assembly, offers world-class instruction from leading data science instructors. In this three-part series, we interview the staff who train, enable and get nascent data scientists employed.
Ben Miller is an Associate Economist at the RAND Corporation and a Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research spans a wide variety of topics including disaster mitigation, infrastructure finance, energy resilience, geospatial information, insurance, tax policy, regulatory affairs, healthcare supply, agriculture, econometrics, and beyond. Recent publications examine the link between flood insurance prices and housin...
Dr. Paul J. Nicholas is an operations research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL). He also teaches a graduate course on analytics and decision analysis as part of GMU’s Data Analytics Engineering (DAEN) program and serves in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Paul’s research focuses on the use of advanced analytic techniques to examine problems in national security, including large-scale comb...
Josh Lipsmeyer is a Software Engineer/Data Scientist at Radiant Solutions where he specializes in algorithm development, data science, and application deployment primarily for customers with the Department of Defense. His primary interest is the study of complex network resilience, information diffusion, and evolution. He has a background in mathematics and physics, holding an MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. He...
Nicholas Kallfa is a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton where he works on creating tailored products for government clients using R and mathematical computing techniques to visualize information in R’s open-source platform Shiny. Not only is Nicholas a great communicator of advanced mathematics, but he shared with us the various methods he uses to guide clients through difficult concepts to reach a mutual understanding. This int...
Anton is a data scientist working in an international development organization in Washington, D.C., where he applies his programming and research skills to contribute to data-for-good goals. While Anton is a full-stack data scientist, meaning he works through a project from prototyping to production, he has a keen affection for natural language processing and text analytics. Prior to starting his data science journey, Anton worked ...
Patrick Smith is the data science lead at Excella in Arlington, Virginia, where he developed the data science practice. Previously, he both led and helped create the data science program at General Assembly in Washington, DC, as was a data scientist with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovations Group. Prior to data science, Patrick worked in risk and quantitative securities analysis, and institutional portfolio management. He ha...
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