LISA GIRARD, MA
I am a Data Scientist/Product Manager interested in digital music economies and culture, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and socio-cultural evolution in digital spaces. I am eager to use my passions, curiosity, creativity, and communications skills to explore how data can redefine socio-cultural relationships.
I am a curious life-long learner and critical thinker here to ask questions, find answers, solve problems, and tell stories. I am embracing the field of Data Science as I transition from a 30-year career in communications, including 20 years as digital marketing strategist, to learn how to gather, process, and tell the story that data holds.
I still like the oxford comma. Ask me about my Swatch collection.
I am a recent graduate of the Thinkful Data Science Flex Bootcamp, February, 2023.
RADIO DATA IN A DIGITAL AGE
Tracking charting history on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
Standard A/B testing examining charting history of power gold hits from the 70s-90s compared to charting history of power gold hits released after 1999. Data analysis focused on if digital music content delivery made a difference in how long songs chart since the launching of Napster in 1999.
Final results and recommendations related to:
EXAMINING PSYCHEDELICS USE AND MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS: knowledge, use, and outcomes
Supervised Machine Learning modeling that examines publically-available raw data about psychedelics use in relation to self-reported mental health and physical health conditions.
Final results and recommendations:
Continued education and research about use of psychedelics to treat mental health conditions will:
* conditions considered: moderate-to-severe depression, moderate-to-severe anxiety, chronic pain, migraine, and insomnia. Survey raw data collected Nov 2020-March 2021.
EVALUATING SNOWSPORTS PARTICIPATION DECISION FACTORS
Unsupervised Learning Model
Analyzed decision-making conditions and behaviors when choosing to participate in snowsports at a Norwegian ski resort.
Final results and recommendations related to:
BEHIND THE GOGGLES: UNMASKING SKI RESORT CUSTOMERS
Unsupervised and supervised predictive classification modeling and analysis
Unsupervised clustered machine learning followed by supervised machine learning to predict and identify the resulting customer clusters at a Norwegian ski resort.
Final results and recommendations related to:
HONE SKILLS AND PROCESSES OF DATA SCIENCE
Explore how data can:
READS ABOUT DATA AND CULTURE
SKILLS
Hard Skills
• EDA | cleaning, wrangling, exploring, feature engineering
• Python / SQL
• Jupyter Notebook/Google Colab notebooks
• GitHub
• Applied statistical analysis:
• A/B Testing
• Story telling | data visualization tools
• Big Data | Hadoop, Spark
Transferrable Soft Skills
CONTACT
email lisaraygirard @ gmail.com
My core values are kindness, compassion, and honesty. I believe in collaboration, transparency, digging in deep, and figuring out the why. Simple is better and the end user leads the way.
There is power in the pause and I choose positivity over negativity.
© 2023 Lisa Girard