Evan Simpson

About

Data scientist, educator, and teacher trainer focused on promoting data-informed decision making who is adept at explaining complex concepts to non-technical audiences. Lifelong learner who sees everyday as an opportunity to learn and share.

Soft Skills

Designing and Delivering Training Seminars Presenting

Stakeholder Management

Technical Skills

Python: pandas, BeautifulSoup, scikit-learn, TensorFlow

R: dplyr, rvest, tmap, ggplot, forcats

Software: SPSS, JMP, Winsteps, FACETS

General: git, Bash, AWS

SQL

Projects

Identifying the maturity level of a book to improve recommendations

Topics: webscraping, machine learning (XGBoost, LSTM) and computer vision

Analysis of #PodRevDay

Topics: Twitter scraping, descriptive statistics, and data visualization

Professional Blogs

An A to Z of Machine Learning

Promoting the understanding and adoption of machine learning

Educators R Learners

Using R for creating visualizations to expalin data

Teaching Learning Learning Teaching

Highlighting edtech use cases and best practices