I'm a recent graduate from American University working in data science. I graduated with a degree in International Studies and also studied statistics, computer science, and the Arabic language.
Hi! I'm Jeffrey
About Me
I have experience in making interactive data-driven interfaces, conducting quantitative research projects, and building responsive, dynamic websites. From researching the statistical relationship between war and US public opinion or building a set of interactive visualizations showing patterns in world conflicts.
Experience
What I'm Doing Now
Management Consulting Delivery Analyst
Accenture Federal Services
July 2019 – Present
Developing interactive data visualizations in Tableau for leadership at a large, cabinet-level government agency.
Previous Experience
Data Science Intern
Applied Research Labratory for Intelligence and Security
Jan. – May 2019
Designed and developed an interactive, full-stack, web-based application using Python's Flask library, vanilla JS, and CSS visualizing article metadata and allowing researchers to use discovered patterns to query articles from a database.
Teaching Assistant
American University
Aug. – Dec. 2018
Designed and developed an interactive, full-stack, web-based application using Python's Flask library, vanilla JS, and CSS visualizing article metadata and allowing researchers to use discovered patterns to query articles from a database.
Research Assistant
American University
Feb. 2018 – Aug. 2018
Performed data management for Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin in a project on how different technological developments influenced trends in historical terrorism. On the project, I used webscraping and text analysis in Python to compose and organize an original dataset for the project.
Policy Intern
US Department of Homeland Security
Jul. 2018 – Aug. 2018
Created a web-based interface that could be used to visualize and explore the department's budget by different components and mission areas using R, HTML, and CSS. Used CSS
media queries to allow the webpage to be printed into a formatted .pdf report.
Intern
DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency
Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2017
Assisted with organizing, writing, and editing disaster response plans for the District of Columbia. Additionally, I worked on an independent research project investigating the impact of disasters on the District's economy and tax base.
Research Assistant
American University
Jan. 2017 – May 2017
Performed data management of large political survey data and cross-national economic data in R and Excel for Professor Austin Hart in a project on the impacts of economic patterns and political clarity of responsibility on voting patterns.
Projects
Data Visualization
Gross Domestic Happiness
Set of interactive data visualizations built with d3.js, leaflet.js, and turf.js with some data munging performed in R.
World in Conflict
Set of interactive data visualizations built with d3.js with data munging performed in Python.
Research
US Counterterrorism Spending
In this research project, we investigated the factors that motivate the US counterterrorism budget. Using historical budget data, we demonstrate how this spending has drastically increased following the attacks on 9/11 and has remained high even as the number of attacks and casualties from terrorist attacks has declined in both the United States and by Foreign Terrorist Organizations abroad.