Hi! My name is Luke. I enjoy building tools to extract insights from all sorts of data. I've had the privilege of working on urgent and challenging issues in the environmental sciences and tech sector. The resume below includes additional information on my background, and some of my technical and professional skills.
Resume
I started my career as an academic research scientist before pivoting to industry. Over the last decade, I've worked across several domains, including environment, real estate, and travel. Most recently, I've been working on the team at Iggy as a data scientist.
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The technologies I enjoy working with include Python, R, and SQL. I use a variety of cloud services to automate, test, and deploy workflows, and use a wide variety of tools to visualize data and to help tell stories about specific results and guide decisions.
A few highlights from some of my past work
Insights about the demography and amenities (within walking or driving distance) at any address in the US.
A data diligence process, including an interactive mapping application and form to systematically and iteratively validate and improve Iggy's features. The process included a number of aggregate checks (statistical measures, and spatial distributions or spatial consistency of individual features) and spot checks (on individual data points, including ID, location, value).
Powerful, analysis-ready features added directly to your data at the press of a button.
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Intro to product, feature catalog and ontology, data dictionaries, and technical guides.
The first comprehensive analysis of human impacts on lands in the American West
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Bayesian hierarchical models for complex monitoring data
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Artificial intelligence to predict Amazonian river health
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Tools for integrating multi-scale earth observation data streams
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