James Pooley
Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Pooley is a Data Scientist in New York with 11 years of experience spanning data analysis, engineering, and machine learning across academia, non-profits, and ad tech. He has productionized models and tooling at scale—migrating legacy lookalike models and automating brand-affinity pipelines on Databricks—and led company-wide Python and R training programs. His background in cognitive science and neuroimaging gives him an uncommon strength in probabilistic thinking and complex experimental design, applied to business problems like media mix modeling and KPI projection. Comfortable in cloud and containerized environments (AWS, Docker) and fluent in both R and Python, he bridges research-grade analysis and production systems to turn messy data into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
AWS Data Warehouse TrainingPh.D., Cognitive Science, Ph.D., Cognitive Science at University of California, IrvineGraduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition, Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition at IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) at UCLANeurohackweek, Neurohackweek at University of Washington eScience Institute.B.S., Psychology (Linguistics Minor), B.S., Psychology (Linguistics Minor) at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (8)
shiny10
bookdown10
r10
shiny-apps7
r-package6
plotly3
ibis1
hosting1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamespooley/jamespooley
Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
jamespooley/shiny-resources
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:175 commits, 170 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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