I am a graduate student in Information Systems at Boston University, with a concentration in Data Analytics. I received my Bachelor's from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. After graduating I worked as an IT Consultant with Oracle for their knowledge management and enterprise search software.

This summer, I look forward to learning more about the intersection of Social Sciences and Data Science. I also look forward to further developing my background in Text Mining and Machine Learning, which our project, Unsafe Foods, focuses on. I also hope to become more proficient in Python. As far as this program specifically has to offer, I am very excited to spend ten weeks in the beautiful city of Seattle, visit Olympic National Park, and spend my time in the pleasant confines of the UW eScience Institute!

The first week was packed with highly useful tutorials. I strongly recommend that interested individuals sign up for a Software Carpentry workshop near them. It is very helpful in providing an introduction to working with object-oriented programming languages with a focus on Data Analytics, and the intro to version control with Git is very useful as well.

I look forward to continuing to work with my awesome team this summer to develop personally, academically, and in my career. It will be a wonderful opportunity to work with experienced mentors, accomplished fellows, and ample resources to hopefully provide a Data Science solution for the betterment of others.