My name is Jonah
I'm a thinker, tinkerer, reader, and do-er in New York. As a Data Scientist / Engineer Consultant for Caserta, I'm an analytics practitioner, helping clients across industries address their business problems and delivering analytics-based solutions (i.e., I spend a lot of time working with client and 3rd party data in R and Python, building software and looking for actionable insights). I previously worked as a data scientist for IBM and in strategy, analytics, and marketing roles at IBM, Amazon, and Hearst, and have an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. My skill set includes Python, R, SQL, Excel, and basic Java, (Py)Spark, Flask, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. I built this site using Flask in order to try out a new technology.
Outside work, I'm fascinated by the future of media and national and New York politics. I'm also a long distance runner and an "amateur reader" (to quote J.D. Salinger), with the music taste of a 45-year-old ex-punk.
Blog posts tagged data science:
- A Book Recommender on AWS
2020-12-18
Getting started with Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service with a Goodreads-powered book recommender - Falling Into The Gap
2020-11-11
Why data science projects fall short of expectations, and what to do about it - On Getting There
2017-12-28
How I became a data scientist - Are Last.FM Playcounts Affected by Pitchfork Scores?: A Data Analysis
2016-12-11
Fun with python data analysis, web scraping, and the Last.FM API - A Night at the Museum
2016-11-30
Creating a universal API for the American Museum of Natural History at its Hack the Stacks Hackathon - Making Chloropleths from NYC Parking Tickets Data
2016-11-19
Cleaning and mapping data for the 30 million plus parking tickets issued in NYC from 2013 to 2016 - Introducing Group Reduce, a K-Means Algorithm for Clustering Groups
2016-10-18
Introducing Group Reduce, a k-means clustering algorithm for reducing the number of groups in a data set (i.e., for clustering groups).