Elaine Farrow
Freelance Data Scientist
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElaine Farrow is a freelance data scientist with eight years of experience bridging academic research and industry to turn complex data into actionable insights for learning, health, and energy efficiency. Her PhD research modelled cognitive quality in online student discussions and she has built tutorial dialogue systems, domestic energy feedback tools, social-data storytelling platforms, and health informatics for people with clinical depression. A former Senior Research Programmer at the University of Edinburgh, she has designed end-to-end technical solutions, led multidisciplinary international teams, and implemented large-scale classification algorithms in production. Elaine combines rigorous statistical and qualitative analysis with engaging public outreach, and brings uncommon domain breadth—from classroom tutoring and accessibility training to industry-grade software engineering—allowing her to translate research ideas into practical, user-centred products.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at The University of EdinburghB.Sc. Hons, B.Sc. Hons at University of St AndrewsHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusCACDP certificate, CACDP certificate at Deaf Action
Github Skills (8)
ada8
leaf8
python6
natural-language-processing2
science2
machine-learning2
nlp2
data-science1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
paracrawl/europat-scripts
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
Scripts for obtaining patent data
Contributions:201 commits, 1 PR, 94 pushes in 1 year 7 months
adapythonpatent-dataleafpatent
vasanthsarathy/ciss_chatbot
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:29 pushes in 3 days
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