RYAN HARPER

Data Scientist + Teacher

Ryan Harper

Data Scientist

I'm a data scientist and educator with an MA in TESOL who specializes in natural language processing and analysis tools. Projects include Chinese character OCR prediction, first language prediction from second language writing, and a full stack app that provides live syntactic feedback while typing. I also build data science containers with Digital Ocean, Dask, Docker, Postgresql, and Jupyter.

10/2018
Workshop on bike accident forecasting via Thinkful:


11/2018
Co-hosted Meetup event for Chinese Script OCR

Educator Resume

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Network   Analysis

Safe   to   Sleep
Campaign

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Inferential   Statistics
with  R:

Diabetes

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Forecasting

Forecasting:

PDX
Bike   Accidents

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Forecasting

Network   Analysis:

Bosch
Manufacturing

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Forecasting

Image   Analysis:

Traditional   Chinese
Characters

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Image Analysis:

Applying   Filters

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Clustering:

Board   Game
Reviews

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Exploratory

Profit   Analysis:

Movie   Genres

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Classification

Classification:

Heart   Disease

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NLP

NLP:

First   Language
Prediction

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NLP:

Sentence   Analysis

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EducationEducation

Certification: Data Science
Thinkful (Bootcamp)
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

Pursued the NLP path to data science. Completed 6 data science capstones with neural nets and other machine learning models.

Certification: Full Stack
PDX Code Guild (Bootcamp)
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018

Groundwork development of fundamentals in computer science and full stack programming with an emphasis on python, javascript, html, css, and django.

MA: TESOL
Portland State University
Sep 2015 Jun 2017

Completed my master's degree in teaching English as a second language with an emphasis on curriculum design, cognitive linguistics, and phonology.

Certification: Chinese
Duke University - Study Abroad
Jun 2008 - Sep 2008

In 2008 I lived in Beijing to complete an immersive 3 month Chinese language program.

BA: EAS
DePauw University
Aug 2004 - May 2008

I completed my BA in East Asian Studies while also pursuing media production work at the local college TV station