The amount of data in the world is exploding. Big Data provides organizations with new opportunities, and with those opportunities come challenges.
I can provide the mentorship and expertise to enhance your organization's use of data. Whether it's by spearheading a data-heavy project, growing a team, or helping you come to grips with how and what to collect and analyze, I can be of help.
I worked behind the scenes at OkCupid as the company's data scientist, leading analyses of terabytes of data. The OkTrends blog, featuring data analysis by Christian Rudder and myself, helped dramatically raise the profile of the company, leading to a doubling of revenue two years in a row.
For an article in the Midwest Edition of the Sunday New York Times, I analyzed the effect of the 2010 Chicago transit cuts on waiting times and late-night bus and train service. Comparing the results against Census data on race, class and public transit use, the data suggested no evidence of discrimination.
Professor Vanja Dukic and I have been combining data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the US Census, Google Flu Trends and a few other free databases to investigate the connection between air travel and flu rates.