Lesley Miller
Data Scientist
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lesley.miller@alumni.ubc.ca
https://aromatic-toast.github.io/
Skills
Python, R, Tidyverse, Rmarkdown, Git, GitHub, Pandas, GeoPandas
Scikit-learn, Numpy, Jupyter Notebook, PlotlyDash
NLP, Gensim, NLTK
About
Hi, my name is Lesley. I'm a Data Scientist, runner, cyclist, skier and outdoor nature lover.
Projects
NLP with IMDB Movie Reviews
This project utilized NLP tools to predict the sentiment of IMDB movie reviews. The project also experiments with other tools such as Doc2Vec and Top2Vec.
Online Shopping Intention Predictor
This collaborative project employed supervised machine learning in Python to predict online shopping intentions.
Modelling Sacramento House Prices
This project used R and linear regression to model the relationship between various house attributes and prices in Sacramento, California.
https://github.com/aromatic-toast/Sacramento_Home_Prices_Workflow
Vancouver Park Biodiversity
This project conducts an exploratory geospatial analysis into the distribution of wildlife within the city parks of Vancouver, BC.
https://github.com/aromatic-toast/vancouver_park_biodiversity
Increasing Accessibility to Biodiversity Data
This collaborative project developed a web-based tool to map biodiversity data across Metro Vancouver.
Work Experience
Data Scientist
Outdoor R&D University of Washington
Lead developer for the organization’s core data processing pipelines that ingest, clean, manipulate and visualize large messy datasets.
Data Science Fellow
UBC Data Science Institute
Utilized R for aggregation and exploration of multiple and inconsistent data sources extracting insights for project partners.
https://dsi.ubc.ca/sites/dsi.ubc.ca/files/dssg-finalreport-metrovan.pdf
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