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ruggbk/README.md

Brandon Rugg

I'm an applied data scientist with a PhD from Northwestern University in physical organic chemistry 🧪 with expertise in Python 🐍 and machine learning 🤖.

My career in physical science has provided me with over ten years of experience in applying techniques such as statistical analysis, dimensionality reduction, and time series modeling to noisy experimental data. I'm also skilled at communicating complex ideas to a variety of audiences-- from presenting findings to other chemists at research meetings and conferences to explaining scientific concepts to grade school students.

After finishing a postdoc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I completed an intensive data science bootcamp through The Data Incubator, where I focused on applied machine learning, data pipelines, and real-world analytics projects. Since then I've continued to develop my skills, primarily through collaborative volunteer projects with DataKind.

I'm now seeking positions as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Analyst, or other roles where I can develop and share applied machine learning and analytics solutions for industry-relevant problems.

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  1. smallholder-farmer-question-clustering smallholder-farmer-question-clustering Public

    Topic discovery in 5M+ smallholder farmer SMS questions using NLP (SentenceTransformers, UMAP, HDBSCAN) to identify unmet needs and improve tagging systems for future agricultural support platforms

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  2. Colorado-MVT Colorado-MVT Public

    An analysis of the dramatic spike in motor vehicle thefts observed in Colorado beginning in 2014

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  3. BRFSS_HealthcareAccess_Analysis BRFSS_HealthcareAccess_Analysis Public

    R-based exploratory analysis of 2022 BRFSS survey data to examine healthcare access patterns in the U.S.

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  4. Baton-Rouge-Housing-and-Health Baton-Rouge-Housing-and-Health Public

    Forked from DataKind-DC/Baton-Rouge-Housing-and-Health

    Containing ETL scripts to pull data from relevant sources

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  5. mexico-financial-inclusion-analysis mexico-financial-inclusion-analysis Public

    Analysis of financial inclusion patterns in Mexico as part of a broader DataKind collaborative project. Focused on data cleaning, feature engineering, and exploratory analysis of multi-source banki…

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