Allison Sliter
Sr Data Scientist
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAllison Sliter is a senior data scientist in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience specializing in natural language processing and turning exploratory research into production-ready solutions. She has led quantitative evaluations of innovation viability at Digimarc and now applies her NLP expertise at PacifiCorp, designing experiments and analysis pipelines that move blue-sky ideas into operational use. Her academic training (MS in Computer Science & EE with an NLP focus) and early research on linguistic markers for autism give her a deep grounding in both applied and clinical language work. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, she pairs robust statistical tooling (python, scikit-learn, audio and linguistic toolchains) with a knack for operational definitions—she once automated evaluation of “pedantic speech.” Outside work she balances data with karaoke, knitting, and parenting, which she credits with keeping her patient and creative under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science and Electrical Engineering specializing in Natural Language Processing, Master's Degree Computer Science and Electrical Engineering specializing in Natural Language Processing at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBachelor of Arts Applied Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts Applied Linguistics at Portland State University
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Github Skills (8)
homebrew6
java6
docker-image4
jupyterhub4
jupyter3
docker3
static-site2
pydata1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
allisons/line_break
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
allisons/allisons.github.io
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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