James Savage
Co-Founder at Avela Education
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Savage is a Bayesian statistician, economist, and data science founder with 12 years of experience applying probabilistic methods to talent identification, portfolio risk, causal inference, and high-dimensional discrete choice problems. As Co-Founder of Feather.rsvp and former Director of Data Science at Schmidt Futures/Sciences, he blends hands-on modeling with strategic program leadership across AI-for-science and social-good domains. He has built production risk engines and led cross-border data teams at Lendable, advised national policy bodies on complex econometric models, and taught university courses—bringing both research rigor and operational delivery. James emphasizes visualization and communication, translating high-dimensional, tail-risk and causal insights into actionable decisions for investors, policymakers, and educators. A practical experimentalist, he pairs aggregated experimental and survey/lab data with modern Bayesian workflows, and maintains a public writing practice that surfaces his methodological thinking. Based in New York, he combines academic training in econometrics with a strong track record of turning complex statistical ideas into deployed systems and policy-relevant analysis.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship at University of ChicagoThe University of MelbourneBachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Economics at La Trobe University
English, Spanish, Indonesian
Stackoverflow
172reputation
14kreached
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Github Skills (66)
stan9
bayesian-data-analysis9
bayesian-methods9
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bayesian-inference8
proximity8
bayesian-statistics8
r-package8
historical7
mcmc6
random-generation6
na6
ggplot6
shiny6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
khakieconomics/khakieconomics.github.io
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
Personal page
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 9 months
javascriptreactpersonal-page
khakieconomics/Thesis_work
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Work for my thesis using random forest proximity matrices to generate historical analogies.
Contributions:35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
matricesrandom-forestrandom-generationhistoricalthesis
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