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Jul 24, 2021

How to transition from Public Health to Data Science

TL;DR: I worked in public health for several years before learning Python, Tableau, and SQL and switching into a data science consulting role. I increased my salary by 45% and now make over $100,000. While I have many years of public health experience, my time working as a public administrative…

Public Health

3 min read

Dec 18, 2020

Hospital Bed and COVID-19 race data unveil substantial health disparities.

I recently finished working on data visualization in Tableau to display COVID19 data from the Coronavirus racial dashboard. After automating a script in python to download the COVID19 data everyday and adding hospital bed and census data, a clearer picture of the health disparities with COVID19 emerged. …

Covid 19

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Nov 21, 2020

How I got my first data science position

TL;DR: I had a subject matter expertise in clinical research and I learned python and data science in 2 years with no prior programming experience. I got job as data scientist in August 2020. Here is some background information on me. I graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor’s in Political…

Data Science

3 min read