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MATHEMATICAN DATA SCIENTIST
DESPINA MATOS
Brand Statement
I am an ambitious Data Scientist who pursued knowledge in the mathematical field. Curious, bold, and adventurous I merge my math skills with Data Science. I seek the opportunity to grow in the field so I will be able to extract new meanings in the technological world. Employment
General Assembly New York
Data Science Fellow Dec. 2019 to Mar. 2020
- Intensive 12- week program learning and applying a wide range of data science tools and concepts
- Mastered skills in Python and associated libraries, performing collection, cleaning, and analyzing of data, building supervised and unsupervised models, and preforming statistical evaluations of results Randstand USA New York
Temp Administrative Roles Oct. 2019 to Jan. 2020
- Responsible for walk-in clients while fielding calls from clients and executives
- Maintain executives calendars by scheduling conferences, teleconferences, and travel
- Implemented a new filing and organization practice by launching excel sheets for paper files Amnesty International New York
Phone Fundraiser July 2019 to Sept. 2019
- Daily cold-calling to the AI petitioners to generate awareness on the most urgent AI campaign
- Landing the highest donation on the In-House Phone Team-thousand dollar monthly donation
- Effectively increased donations weekly with the use of Contact Space School Professionals New York
Teacher Aid at NEST+M Nov. 2018 to June 2019
- Completed daily administration/clerical work that the classroom teacher requested for
- Implemented new filing and organization practices by creating binders, google docs, and excel sheets for paper files and grading
- Generated weekly meetings with each student to foster their growth and achievements Projects
TMDB US Box Office Prediction
- Final General Assembly project
- Predicting a movie's United States Box Office revenue with a movies dataset from Kaggle
- Used supervised machine learning to create regression models Predicting Affluence in Manhattan using Yelp Pricing Data
- Collaborated on a team of 3 to investigate existing Yelp and Census Income datasets and determining the best features in these given datasets
- Used supervised machine learning to create classification models Hackathon GA DSI 2020
- Collaborated on a team of 4 to investigate existing Census Income datasets and determining the best features in these given datasets
- Used supervised machine learning to create classification models Web APIs & NLP
- Scrapped two different subreddits to classify similar content using natural language processing in Python
- Used supervised machine learning to create classification models Ames Housing Data and Kaggle Challenge
- Identified how an individual in Ames is able to budget for buying or selling a home
- Used supervised machine learning to create regression models SAT & ACT Analysis
- Identified where the CollegeBoard resources should be implemented to have higher participation rates for its exams
- Fine-tuned my exploratory analysis skills
Contact
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Education
General Assembly Dec. 2019 to Mar. 2020
Certificate of Completion - Data Science
Immersive
Queens College, The City University of
New York
Master of Arts, Major: Applied Mathematics
Hunter College, The City University of
New York
Bachelors of Arts, Major: Statistics, Minors:
Political Science and Religion
LANGUAGES AND TOOLS: Python, SQL,
Scala, HTML,
Wolfram Alpha Mathematica, Ruby,
Excel, JavaScript, Outlook, Access
LIBRARIES: Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn,
Matplotlib, Os, Ruby on Rails, Sklearn,
NLTK, AST, Statsmodels, Datetime, Scipy,
Keras, Tensorflow
PLATFORMS: Git, Jupiter Notebook, Atom,
Tableau
DATA SCIENCE:
Data Collection & Cleaning,
Visualizations, Predictive Modeling,
Statistical Analysis
Skills