Craig Mcgowan
Lead Data Scientist
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Mcgowan is a Lead Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying statistical and machine learning methods to public health and game analytics. He has a strong biostatistics background (MS, UNC Chapel Hill) and a track record in infectious disease forecasting, environmental health studies, and telemetry-driven player experience analysis for major game titles. At ZeniMax he combines Python and PySpark with techniques from regression and clustering to Glicko-2 skill ratings, translating analyses into product and marketing decisions. Previously he founded Protea Analytics and produced top-ranked influenza forecasts for CDC challenges, contributing to ensemble forecasting efforts. Comfortable in R, SAS, SQL and LaTeX, he is obsessive about writing readable code that stands the test of time. Based between Baltimore and Johannesburg during his career, he brings multidisciplinary collaboration experience from academia, government, and industry.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at The Data IncubatorBachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science w/ Honors, Bachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science w/ Honors at Brown UniversityMaster of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Secondary Science, Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Secondary Science at Georgia State UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Biostatistics, Master of Science (MS) Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
craigjmcgowan/FluForecast
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
Prediction model for the CDC FluSight influenza forecasting challenge
Contributions:319 commits, 2 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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cdcepi/FluSight-forecasts
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
FluSight Forecast Submissions
Contributions:71 commits, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years
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