Project #1 Deliverable

Who Am I

For centuries, even millenniums, the human species has pondered the question, “Who am I?”, what is our place in the world and the greater universe? Questions like these have spawned many great thinkers and even an entire field, philosophy.

Thankfully, this assignment is more easier than reading hundreds of pages of Kant. My name is Steffani Gomez, I’m 21, turning 22 in a month, and I’m a first year at the Wake Forest School of Business, working toward a M.S. in the Business Analytics program. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, I came to the states as a toddler and was raised in Orlando, Florida. My interests include watching cinema and jamming to whatever musical phase I’m going through, currently very into alternative R&B.

Academic Background

• Sc.B. in Computer Science from Brown University ’17

I would consider myself to be a very strong programmer, with a lot of coursework in theory and software development. In the last year and a half at Brown, I became very interested in data science, having found a field in computer science that combines my love of math and computing with tech. As a result of this, I began taking advanced math classes and pursuing projects with a heavy math component, and I’d love to learn more math.

Professional Background

I have done my own research projects in big data and data visualization in Python and C# with .NET Core, respectively alongside professors and research groups at Brown. I have also worked as a student developer at Brown.

• Incrementally Forecasting Large Time Series
  • used incremental ARIMA and an online gradient descient ARIMA algorithm combined with different sampling strategies to test and compare existing incremental ARIMA algorithms
  • still working with my professors on this project as it was my capstone for my degree, and I feel very passionate about it
• Dynamic Histograms
  • used 7 different existing dynamic histogram algorithms, each representing a different histogram class
  • these algorithms are used in databases for query size approximation and data visualization for truly accurate histograms with varying bin widths
  • also still working on this project, the goal is to submit a paper on this to a conference by the end of the year
• Student Developer for Center for Digital Scholarship
  • did web scraping of an entire website in Chinese and had to deal with special characters and UNIX characters
  • scraped text from pdf files using bash and downloaded packages off the internet
  • made an interactive data visualization website of the floormap of the 1880 Crystal Palace Exhibition

Experience with R

I have used R in one other class, but it was about two years ago. However, I’m quite excited to learn, since I’ve had peers who have conducted entire class projects in R, which always impressed me.

Experience with Other Analytical Software

I have experience with the following software/programming language:

• Matlab
• Stata
• SQL (using both relational databases and NoSQL databases, like MongoDB and Redis)
• Python
• Java
• C/C++/C#
• HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/jQuery (web design)