Jim Kloet
Staff Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJim Kloet is a Staff Data Scientist in Chicago with 10+ years of experience turning messy, cross-domain data into actionable product and business outcomes. He has led and scaled analytics teams at e-commerce and retail companies, built production ML tools that measurably improved conversion and sell-through, and briefed C-suite and boards on measurement and experimentation strategy. As a founder he engineered a near-realtime sports data stack that produced over $1M ROI for users while keeping operating costs under $20/month, demonstrating pragmatism and cost-conscious systems design. His background in cognitive science and neuroimaging research informs a rigorous experimental mindset and strong statistical intuition that he applies across problems from call centers to marketplaces. Jim routinely translates research-grade methods into production dashboards and models, mentoring junior data talent and hiring teams to close capability gaps. He’s curious by nature—often repurposing solutions across disparate domains—which fuels his knack for creative, high-impact analytics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Psychology, Bachelor's Degree Psychology at University of MichiganPsychology, Psychology at Grand Valley State UniversityHigh School, High School at Forest Hills Northern High SchoolABD Communication Sciences Cognitive Science, ABD Communication Sciences Cognitive Science at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
440reputation
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18answers
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Github Skills (34)
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nba-api10
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knitr6
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dplyr6
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ggplotly6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jimtheflash/jk-resume
Jul 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
jimtheflash/gambling_dashboards
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 review, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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