Jack Vaughan
Summary
Data Scientist well-versed in gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Highly organized, motivated and diligent with significant background in policy research, experimental design, and software development.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Science Consultant
The University of Texas
01.2022 - Current
- Advised tech stack and data selection choices from the onset of the project
- Developed automated ETL pipelines and constructed the target dataset of +30,000 Colombian jobs
- Designed and deployed a multi-platform python application to automate the application process
- Led and trained research team on application use | documentation writing
Junior Data Scientist
Continental Automotive Group
09.2022 - 01.2023
- Streamline manager workflows via process automation with Python, Bash, Google Apps Script (JS-based)
- Front-to-Back dashboard development for visualizing KPIs across all departments
- Engineered PostgreSQL data pipelines and moderate server API calls to reduce information traffic
- Designed sustainable, scalable analytic solutions as the company builds out its data infrastructure
Senior Policy Analyst
The University of Texas
05.2021 - 09.2022
- Collect, input, and arbitrate 14,000+ lines of code on a World Bank-sponsored research project
- Elucidate the main problems of compliance with international anti-corruption laws in corporate finance
- Identified room for growth in team communication practices and increases in codebook efficiency with innovative excel programming
- Demonstrated leadership in work-share assignments, discovering systematic codebook errors, solutions
Research/Policy Analyst
Innovations For Peace And Development
03.2021 - 05.2021
- Quantify and visualize international waste import ban policy data in R from 1850 to the present
- Synthesized a database with 1300+ entries tracking international weaponization of waste
- Interpret the impact of waste import bans on foreign trade disputes & int'l environmental policy with respect to the Basel Convention treaty on hazardous waste movement
- Recommended updates to current legislation, regulations and policies.
Education
Certificate of Graduation - Data Science
General Assembly
New York, NY03.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science and Government
The University of Texas
Austin12.2021
Skills
- Cloud Services Integration
- Machine Learning
- Sentiment Analysis
- Predictive Models
- Research
- Natural Language Processing
- Applied Statistics
- Software Development
- Python
- SQL
- Data Gathering
- Deep Learning
Projects
- Conspiracy or Philosophy: Data science project focused on analyzing online discourse in two subreddits, r/AskPhilosophy and r/Conspiracy using natural language processing techniques and machine learning modeling. By examining language patterns, the study successfully classified Reddit posts with an overall accuracy of approximately 90% and recall 93%. The final model, a Support Vector Machine with a sigmoid kernel, demonstrated promising results in classifying posts and uncovering insights into the types of argumentative structures used in advocating ideas online.
- Phil Audit System: A containerized application for automating the scraping of tabular PDF data from Philippines Govt internal audit reports from 2011-2022
Timeline
Junior Data Scientist
Continental Automotive Group
09.2022 - 01.2023
Data Science Consultant
The University of Texas
01.2022 - Current
Senior Policy Analyst
The University of Texas
05.2021 - 09.2022
Research/Policy Analyst
Innovations For Peace And Development
03.2021 - 05.2021
Certificate of Graduation - Data Science
General Assembly
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science and Government
The University of Texas
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