Data Social Media

Michael Durst

Curriculum vitae

WORK EXPERIENCE

AUGUST 2016 – PRESENT

ECS Limited

Environmental Technician

On-site environmental consultant on multiple large scale excavations. Responsible for operations of

multiple large scale ground water remediation sys- tems. Conducted soil, vapor, and ground water

sampling. Co-wrote Phase I and II environmental

site assessments.

OCTOBER 2015 – AUGUST 2016

Keystone Trade Group

Purchasing Assistant

Managed and organized purchasing and inventory

accounting. Utilized Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)

to increase sales. Improved shipment processes

increasing efficiency and lowering costs.

JUNE 2015 – AUGUST 2016

Fairfax County

Natural Resources Intern

Wrote 2015 Annual Water Quality Report. Sam-

pled water quality in Huntley Meadows Wetland

using the EPA Rapid Bio-Assessment Protocols. As-

sisted in Doctoral studies pertaining to wetland

vegetation and avian life. Conducted Purple Milk-

weed and Deer Survey projects.

JUNE 2013 – AUGUST 2013

Virginia Government

Governor’s Fellow to Agriculture and

Forestry

Constructed the Virginia Wine Distribution Com-

panys Operations Manual. Recommended rein-

stating and restructuring the Physician Loan Re-

payment Program to the Governor. Organized cam-

paign to raise funds for Virginias Food Banks.

SKILLS

Languages (Front End Visualization): HTML, CSS,

Bootstrap, Dashboarding, D3.js, Javascript Chart-

ing, Handlebars,Git

Databases: MySQL, Mongo DB

Programming Technologies: Python 3, Pandas, Mat-

plotlib, API Interactions, Social Media Mining, NumPy, scikit-learn

Frameworks/Tools: Excel VBA, Excel (Modeling and

Forecasting

LINKS

Github:// michaeljdurst12

LinkedIn:// Michael Durst

Email: ***************@*****.***

Phone: 703-***-****

EDUCATION

2017 – 2018 George Washington University

CERTIFICATE

Data Analytics and Visualiza-

tion

2012 – 2016 Ursinus College

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Environmental Studies, Busi-

ness Management

PROJECT WORK

News Mood Analysis

Used vader analysis to gauge the sentiment of ma-

jor news media outlets through Twitter. Utilized

the Tweepy API to retrieve Tweet data from CNN,

FOX, BBC, NY Times, and CBS. Graphed the over-

all sentiment of these news organization using Mat- plotLib and Seaborn.

News Analysis Link

Weather Analysis

A webpage displaying weather by comparing lati-

tudes to temperature, humidity, cloud cover, and

wind speed. HTML, CSS, and bootstrap were used

to complete this.

Weather Link

Earth Quake Visualization

Created a simple web page showing earth quakes

over the past 7 days. Used d3 to retrieve USGS

GeoJSON data and Leaflet to create a map visual-

izing the data. The map displayed the size of the

earth quakes by magnitude and fault lines.

EarthQuake link

CitiBike

Used Tableau to visualize New York City CitiBike

ridership data. Aggregated the data found in the

Citi Bike Trip History Logs from 2013 through to-

day and built a data story highlighting trends in

ridership.

CitiBike link

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