For any businesses interested in hiring a data scientist with over 10 years of work experience, be it for freelance, part time, or full time opportunities, please contact me at eringrand@gmail.com
Bio
Degrees:
- MS Data Science (Columbia University) 2016
- MS Astronomy (University of Maryland) 2014
- BS Physics & Astronomy (University of Maryland) 2011
Organizations
Uncommon Schools (Data Scientist)
- Produced high-quality analytics work around student and staff data, including prediction models around student state exams, student enrollment, and staff recruitment.
- Lead 6+ group trainings on the R programming language for 10+ coworkers Automated manual state exam reporting process saving 6+ hours of processing time
Crisis Text Line (Data Scientist)
- Working at Crisis Text Line as a Data Scientist. You can read about my transition to Data Science at Crisis Text Line here.
- Built and shipped a new volunteer application which has been used by 7600 applicants. Increased the completion rate from 40% to 90%.
- My work has focused on identifying drop off points for trainers and supervisors. I produced cohort reports of training metrics and identified key differences among cohorts to provide trainers with new solutions. I identified counselor churn as the largest organizational priority, and setup tracking, reporting, and analysis of key metrics.
Research
- Determining the formation mechanism for pillar structures found on the rims of HII regions
- Worked with Dr. Marc Pound and Dr. Lee Mundy at University of Maryland College Park.
- My poster from the 2013 CARMA Symposium.
- Master thesis available at request.
- Ultraviolet Portrait of M31
- Collected images from the ultraviolet telescope aboard NASA’s swift satellite in order to form the final mosaic.
- Worked with Dr. Stefan Immler at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Analyzing the Star Formation of Galaxies in the MIDGET survey with Dr. Alberto Bolatto