Jack Rayner

Denver, Colorado   ·   Resume   ·   JackARayner@gmail.com

A trademark of mine, ever since the established age of 2, was being told that I was “talking from the second I woke up to the second my head hit the pillow at night.” My natural curiosity of the world relentlessly persisted through the books upon books necessary to resolve the questions my parents could not. Though my interests have changed since I was a toddler, my fascination with the ins and outs of the world has certainly stayed constant.

As a creative and driven Data Scientest, this self motivation and curiosity developed into a passion for using whatever new tools and technologies pull the most meaningful insights from the chaos of data. I have strong technical skills and experience in a plethora of technologies and languages including Python, SQL, Neural Networks, and Tableau, as well as teamwork and communication. Nothing excites me more than the rapidly changing landscape of data science, and what human limitations are just weeks from being overcome. Through learning from those who came before me, and applying the skills I bring to the table, I hope to contribute to this common goal. I'm adaptable, and excel in any role that pushes me to push myself.

Experience

Clustering Opinions on the War in Afghanistan

Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing

Use both standard clustering and Latent Dirichlet Allocation to analize how sentiment on different topics changed over time, and thus how opinions on the war in Afganistan shifted through the course of the war based on articles pulled from the New York Times.

This visualization is interactive, try clicking points on the graph!

LDA Visualization


ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WINE PRODUCTION

TIMESERIES, MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION

Driven by the desire to gain a deeper understanding of the potential impact of climate natural variability and long term trends on wine production in the State of California, my team and I investigated the relationship between climate trends and wine production. Specifically, we sought to measure whether an increase in average temperature and a reduction in precipitation corresponds with a quantifiable drop in wine production. Because of their economical value, the primary focus was in the following counties: Napa, Sonoma and San Joaquin. Through the implementation of a multiple linear regression model, mapped the relationship between weather metrics and wine production, it became possible to model future weather predicted by two different forward-looking climate scenarios.

March 2022

Natural Language Processing for Classifying Reddit Posts

ClassiFication Modeling, Webscraping

As the internet solidifies itself as the primary forum for discussions of virtually every topic, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate fact and opinion. As the largest online forum and aptly named "front page of the internet", there seems no better candidate for studying this than Reddit. This project aimed to determine what features make a Reddit post likely to be objective, and what features are characteristic of an opinion post.

February 2022

Education

General Assembly

Data Science Immersive
Python3, Data Engineering, ClassiFication Models, Natural Language Processing, Deep Neural Networks
January 2022 - April 2022

Coursera

Online University Courses

IBM Data Analysis With Python, Data Storytelling (University of California, Irvine)

December 2021 - Present

Skills

Programming Languages
Tools
  • SckitLearn, Keras, and Pytorch among other quitesantial modeling libraries
  • Python3, Pandas, Numpy and SQL
  • Tableau, Seaborn, Matplotlib, and other industry standard visualization tools
  • Project Management tools such as Git, GitHub, and Miro

Interests

Provided the sun is shining, you'll likely find me outside rock climbing, biking, running or hiking. I have been a competitive boulderer for over 5 years, and I've never backed down from the challange of ateempting to do an activty while simultaniously listening to an audiobook.

When I'm not half way up a mountain listeing to Isaac Asimov, I enjoy producing music, learning about the creation, trading, and selling of luxury watches and finding out about whatever new tech product launched last week.

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