Jacob Eliason
Senior Data Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Eliason is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of professional experience and four years focused on building data solutions for public and private sector clients. He combines a strong foundation in statistical methodology with hands-on expertise in modern cloud and ML infrastructure, now applied at Thumbtack. Jacob holds an MSc from LSE and a BS from Brigham Young University, reflecting a blend of rigorous quantitative training and practical engineering. He’s comfortable turning complex, policy-adjacent problems into reproducible, production-ready analytics and models, and brings an unusual cross-sector perspective from working with both government and commercial stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
London School of Economics and Political ScienceBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (19)
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
firefox10
chrome10
bypass10
browser-extension9
r7
twitter-api-v26
twitter6
obsidian5
expert5
pandoc4
language-modeling3
evaluation2
text-generation2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eliason-j/y2clerk
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Our Resident Tabulation Expert
Contributions:8 PRs, 128 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
tabulationopen-datasetsjstreeexpertzmodem
jcblsn/manifoldr
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Tools for R users on the Manifold Markets prediction market platform
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 35 pushes in 2 months
rapi-wrappermanifold-marketsprediction-markets
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