I’m both a social science researcher, programmer, and practitioner of data services. I’m a competent data scientist, because I’m skeptical of data. I know what can and cannot be said.
Researcher Skills/Principles:
- A true researcher seeks the truth, not the result
- Economic Researcher Background: Statistics, predictive analytics, machine learning, and data reporting
- Design scientific/casual studies and create proxy variables if data is not availale
- Program Evaluation
- Design Reports for respective audience
- Reports should be proactive and promote actionable results
Programmer Skills/ Principles:
- Technical Language Competency: R, Matlab, Stata, Python, T-SQL language (best)
- Values: efficiency, scalability, storage, execution, automation, and quality assurance (QA)
- Strong working back-end knowledge with Student Information System (SIS)
- Writing complex algorithms/functions for data transformations and reporting
- Streamline the databases for easy access and query execution
Work-related Projects at South Washington County Schools
- Vision Card: Primary aggregate accountability tool that utilize the growth measures and test scores primarily based on Minnesota Department Education (MDE) standards and show inequity gaps.
- Changed from static to dynamic document; follow the same cohorts
- Expanded comprehensive metrics w/ expansion to high schools
- Expanded demographics that include transfer students, former ESL students
- Introduced achievement gaps changes
- Create interactive report that is accessed electronically and updated daily
- User-friendly (fit in one page) and customization for respective school
- Benchment Assessment System (BAS) capture system/reporting: BAS was the primary early literary assessment and diagnostic tool administered preK to third grade
- Created/ administered/ Programmed all reporting
- Numerous conditional formatting to respective student/ audience
- Added Growth Measures and expected growth measures
- Customized reports for diverse audience (teachers, reading specialists etc.)
- Growth Trajectory Map: An individualized display of current and past growth projections for individual map
- Answer the question: How many years of “high growth” is necessary for a student to be proficient?
- Customized SQL report that displays that shows student
- Compares actual results respect to past projections in one chart