Guo (Iris) Chen
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University of California, Berkeley
Major: Bachelor of Arts, Statistics December 2016
Coursework
- Linear Modelling: Theory and Applications - Industrial and Commercial Data
- Financial Information Analysis - Time Series
- Applied Econometrics - Geographic Information Analysis SKILLS
Computer: Statistical software – R, STATA, SAS; MATLAB, SQL, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint; ArcGIS, ESRI, QGIS and Google Earth; HTML, LaTeX
Languages: Bilingual proficiency in Chinese; basic speaking, reading, and writing skills in German RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Google Earth Intern April 2017-May 2017
Joint Earth Education Project
• Functionally built KMLs and created tours within Google Earth
• Sourced imagery and videos in terms of global change and anthropogenic activities
• Helped support the creation of UGC stories on new Google technology that will be publicly launched Part-time Virtual Intern: Data Analyst August 2015-March 2016 Technical Consulting & Research, Inc. (TCR) Weston, CT
● Manipulate real data with R for educational surveys from high schools in Hungary, Brazil, Kenya, and Hong Kong
● Data visualization
● Provide findings of data to the VP and discuss with the team on the results found every week during the webinar Research Assistant August 2014-December 2014
The Mishler Lab: Quantitative Analysis of Specialized cells in Devonian Liverworts, UC Berkeley
● Generated spreadsheets for data from 642 slides of the liverworts’ fossil specimens and modern specimens, each with 22 different variables/categories on Excel
● Compared among different categories of certain slides, calculated correlation and covariance of them, and made clearly- demonstrated graphs on Excel
● Made graphs more informative by adding photographed pictures and contributed to a more successful presentation for the supervisor
PROJECTS
GIS Project: Effect of TRIs and Superfund Sites on House Prices in Sunnyvale, CA April 2016
● Extracted real data on house price to points and digitized polygons in Google Earth
● Performed Kriging analysis in ArcGIS and got multi-layer maps out of the software for presentation
● Purged the dataset on house in Excel to make regression analysis on the marginal effect of proximity in distance from superfund sites and distance from TRIs
● Overlaid an interpolated surface in terms of fluoridated and non-fluoridated area with the under five population data to determine whether children under five are affected by the fluoride contamination Statistical Project: Prediction of the Winning Party in the U.S. Presidential Election December 2014 Teamwork with a group of four students
● Used data from the previous election to build the models: k nearest neighbors and rpart
● Made a map that compares the change in votes from the previous year to the year predicted