Data scientist, Benchmark Analytics
2021 — 2022
Benchmark Analytics is a fast growing startup that handles law enforcement data. My team creates complex custom reports for our clients.
Welcome.
I am a sociologist by education and data scientist by profession. I finished a sociology undergrad in Chile and continued with a Master's in Chicago. As a sociologist, I studied drug use and networks of support. In Chicago, I learned to code and got a job as a data scientist at the Cook County Assessor's Office. I had the privilege to work with a great team and a great mentor. I keept growing in the data sector. The rest is history. I am currently growing into data engineering. I hope to master Machine Learning Ops.
Machine learning
Python
90%
SQL
80%
R
70%
Architecture development
Git
100%
CLI
80%
Docker
50%
Jekyll
30%
My timeline
Data scientist, CCAO
2020 — 2021
The Cook County Assessor's office (CCAO) faced a corruption scandal. To be more transparent, the CCAO decided to create an all-encompassing reporting infrastructure to describe the state of their assessment. I was the lead data scientist of this epic. I created data pipelines to deal with the CCAO's complex data architecture. I dealt with memory issues by running large data manipulations efficiently. And I wrote a user interface using shiny. I managed to automatize the reporting process and create dynamic 'ratio studies' for all parameters we were interested in. In other words, I produced a report for every different set of geographies, years, and property types. It considered new data in the server. 126 reports per year. 378 reports for the years we ran. Reports allowed us to note precisely who we were assessing poorly. Concentrating our efforts in those cases.
Student, University of Chicago
2018 — 2019
In 2019 I graduated from the MA Program in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. I wrote a thesis about support networks and drug use. I wanted to know who was there when addicts needed emotional support. When they needed a shoulder to cry on. What I found was rather unintuitive. Addicts do not habitually talk to people they consider close. Not when they need to vent. Indeed, addicts avoid talking about important matters with close people. Specially hurtful matters. Close people can be judgy. Close people can be patronizing. On the contrary, addicts spoke about hurtful matters with distant people. Finding support among unexpected folks. The support that distant people can provide is not to be underestimated.