SpringboardSpringboard Data Science Career Track
Apr. 2019 - Jan. 2020550+ hours of hands-on curriculum, with 1:1 industry expert mentor oversight, and completion of 2 in-depth capstone projects. Mastering skills in Python, SQL, data analysis, data visualization, hypothesis testing, and machine learning. Capstone Project 1 - Title: Projecting rainfall averages in North Carolina for the next 50 years.
Objective: To provide a forecast of rainfall amounts for the next 50 years. This forecast could potentially be used to influence decisions in agriculture, government water regulations, and government resource management. Tools Used: Python, Time-series analysis, Seasonal Decomposition, Correlation, and Auto-correlation.
Outcomes: A report and corresponding code of findings with a raster map of North Carolina projected annual rainfall for the next 5 years (2020 - 2024) the intensity of projected rainfall varies by color. I provided 95% confidence intervals for the subsequent 45 years (2025-2069). A second map detailed the differences in rainfall from present day to the projected amounts. Lastly, I separated projected data into projected annual rainfall per decade. Capstone Project 2 - Health Scores
I collected all of the data regarding all 500 cities from the City health Dashboard and the different metrics used to determine the level of health for a city. By ranking these cities, I made a system for being able to accurately compare the level of health of one city to another. This could be helpful for city health managers or nonprofits that are looking to understand how well their city is performing compared to other cities. These managers could compare their city to the cities ranked above them and see how they might change their programs in their city to increase the health of their city. I compared the efficacy of several different Clusterization and Classification methods to find the pair of Machine Learning methods that best fit the dataset to then rank the cities from healthiest to the least healthy.