Mapping Trader Joe’s Locations versus Median Household Income

Goal: Examine the relationship between Trader Joe's store locations in California cities, and city median household income (MHI).

Deliverable: Analysis of the relationship between store location density and MHI, to investigate the question “Is Trader Joe’s an affordable, local store for all?”.

python (pandas, altair, matplotlib) ~ webscraping

Linguistic Analysis in R

Goal: Compare liberal-leaning and conservative-leaning news coverage of the weddings of Naomi Biden, and Tiffany Trump.

Deliverable: R program using sentiment analysis and relative adjective frequency. Findings: no significant differences in coverage of Naomi Biden’s wedding, but more positively skewed.

R ~ Livegap Charts

See the poster ->

Training a Model to Predict Loan Defaults

Goal: Using the famous German Credit Data, train a model to correctly classify applicants according to whether they defaulted on their loan. This project demonstrates knowledge of VC theory, a critical topic in data mining.

Deliverable: Python program that implements the Decision Tree Classifier. I trained this model to correctly classify 76% of the applicants.

python (pandas, scikit.learn)