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Tidy Tuesday: Geomapping Beer Awards with Leaflet
Every week R4DS publishes a dataset on Tuesday for the community to promote learning and knowledge sharing. This week’s dataset is beers that have earned medals at the Great American Beer Festival from 1987 to 2020.
Last updated on Oct 22, 2020 3 min read Code
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Tidy Tuesday: Geomapping Beer Awards with Leaflet
Quickly Generate a Slide Deck for Hugo with Blogdown
Like many people in the data science world, I am using the Hugo Academic theme with blogdown to create my website. Last week, I put a slide deck on my site using a tutorial from the Miller Lab.
Last updated on Aug 31, 2020 3 min read Website
Quickly Generate a Slide Deck for Hugo with Blogdown
Gender Trouble
If you’ve spent anytime on tech twitter in the last 48 hours, you might have noticed a lot of people dunking on a product called Genderify, an api for guessing the gender of clients based on their names or usernames.
Last updated on Jul 31, 2020 3 min read
Gender Trouble
How do we know Hamilton wrote the other 51?
Yesterday, like 90% of musical theater kids with internet connections, I spent yesterday watching the filmed version of Hamilton. (Yes, I am aware of a lot of the very legitimate criticism against Hamilton and Lin Manuel Miranda.
Last updated on Jul 4, 2020 2 min read
How do we know Hamilton wrote the other 51?
A Brief Introduction
I’m a data scientist who took an unconventional path to the field. I’ve been a tech nerd since I was young (my AOL screenname was computergeek[birthday]), but developed a passion for statistics and teaching statistics while pursuing my undergraduate degree in psychology.
Last updated on Jun 26, 2020 2 min read
A Brief Introduction

Projects

Last updated on Oct 22, 2020
Tidy Tuesday
Tidy Tuesday

Every Tuesday, the R4DS community publishes a dataset with the goal of sharing knowledge within the data science community. My contributions to this knowledge sharing are collected here.
Last updated on Oct 22, 2020
Damnfine Color Palette
Damnfine Color Palette

A visualization color palette for R using colors from the TV based on wesanderson.

Recent & Upcoming Events

A 10 Minute Introduction to Probability
A very short talk about understanding probability at Indy Hall.
Aug 27, 2020 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM
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A 10 Minute Introduction to Probability
Faith Benamy

Faith Benamy

Data Nerd

Biography

Faith Benamy is a data scientist, circus artist, and all around nerd. After graduating with her Masters in Data Science from the New College of Florida in 2020, she has been working on a variety of projects in the broad field of data science.

Education

  • MS in Data Science, 2020

    New College of Florida

  • BA in Psychology, 2012

    New College of Florida

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Scientist
Independence Blue Cross
Feb 2022 – Mar 2022
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define a classification task. * Explored unlabeled transcription data to develop automate labeling models.
 
 
 
 
 
Data Engineer
Urvin
Feb 2021 – Jan 2022
  • Designed client proposals for both products and studies using machine learning and advanced statistical techniques.
  • Implemented data cleaning procedures using various R and Python libraries.
  • Created a natural language processing software prototype to classify document errors and reduce labor hours for a client.
  • Reworked processes for integrating new projects. into existing workflow.
 
 
 
 
 
Freelance Data Scientist
Is Our Machines Learning
May 2020 – Feb 2021
  • Worked on a data expansion project using machine learning to support advanced SEO.
 
 
 
 
 
Data Analyst
Gap International
May 2013 – Aug 2018
  • Designed an assessment tool based on a proprietary leadership framework through interviews with the executive team and partnership with an external survey panel.
  • Conducted psychometric research on a suite of survey tools which drove decisions regarding product updates.
  • Redirected department strategy by presenting research showing that a product being developed in service of an old business plan was not a match for the current market.
  • Implemented structures for collecting data and evaluating the success of new campaigns in partnership with the marketing department
  • Saved the organization $3,000 per year by switching from SPSS to open source statistical programming languages.

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