Colin Drayton - Information Scientist

Colin Drayton

Information Scientist

Oakland, California, United States

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Colin Drayton is an information scientist with 11 years of experience applying data science and NLP to improve information flow and team intelligence, currently building NLP tools at Boeing. He blends a formal ML toolkit (TF-IDF, Doc2Vec, LC-Seg, custom classifiers) with human-centered research—user interviews and iterative bootstrapping—to turn messy communication data into actionable interfaces and searchable knowledge. His background spans government science archives to enterprise chatops, with practical wins like automating metadata for millions of records and classifying half a million emails. Trained in information science and complex systems at the University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute, he specializes in removing bottlenecks in social networks so communities can emerge more naturally. An uncommon strength is his ability to formalize domain rules (from property law to archival practice) into reproducible pipelines that surface meaningful, contextual outputs for users.

11 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Information Science/Studies, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Information Science/Studies at University of Michigan - School of Information

Anthropology, Anthropology at Fresno City College

Graduate Certificate, Complex Systems, Graduate Certificate, Complex Systems at University of Michigan

BA, Anthroplogy, Human Complex Systems, BA, Anthroplogy, Human Complex Systems at University of California, Los Angeles

B.A, Anthropology, B.A, Anthropology at Santa Fe Institute

English, Swedish, Vietnamese, Spanish, French

Github Skills (34)

anaconda8

network-graph8

issue-tracking7

igraph7

linguistics7

mathematics7

ide7

wolfram-language7

nltk6

language-server-protocol6

python6

graph-algorithms6

random-walk6

network-analysis6

nlp5

Programming languages (3)

C++CPython

Github contributions (5)

scramblingbalam/Alta_Real

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017

Contributions:135 commits, 92 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months

scramblingbalam/IIT_in_orgs

Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 22 comments in 6 months

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