Erika Salomon
Founder & Principal at Salomon Consulting LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErika Salomon is a data scientist and founder with 11 years of cross-sector experience applying predictive models, evaluation, and data strategy to public sector, nonprofit, academic, and product settings. She has led data science work from research to production—building entity-matching systems, predictive models for housing and health risks, and analytics infrastructure—while communicating results through publications, blogs, and award-winning conference talks. As Founder & Principal of Salomon Consulting and a former senior data scientist at organizations like Shopify, Medic Mobile, and eSpark, she specializes in turning messy, multi-source data into actionable interventions for mission-driven clients. Her Ph.D. in social psychology underpins a rare blend of rigorous experimental design and practical analytics, enabling both causal insight and scalable deployment. Known for partnering across teams and governments to translate models into policy and program impact, she also brings a background in science communication and education that helps non-experts adopt data-driven decisions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at University of MarylandUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMA (Distinction), Cognition and Culture, MA (Distinction), Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (82)
python10
prediction10
medical10
artificial-intelligence10
health10
machine-learning10
modeling10
couchdb9
pouchdb9
ehealth9
mhealth9
javascript8
responsive8
points7
transform7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ecsalomon/trust-game
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
gamejavascripttrustmodifiedround
ecsalomon/TSR---Test-Stats-Replication
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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