Summary
Mhairi McNeill is a freelance data scientist based in Scalloway, Scotland with 11 years' experience applying R, Python and SQL to real-world problems across industry and academia. She specialises in text mining, web scraping and visualisation, and has built end-to-end data systems and predictive models for diverse clients while maintaining a hands-on engineering focus. Her recent roles as a data engineer at Wood Mackenzie broadened her production skills—building AWS-based pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and testing with pytest and pandera. Experienced educator and content creator, she has taught MSc courses and bootcamp modules on data wrangling and analysis, turning complex methods into practical learning. Early work on automated scraping, sentiment analysis and player-behaviour modelling demonstrates a long-standing interest in extracting structured insight from messy text and interaction data.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Statistics, Diploma Statistics at The Open University
MSc. Applied Statistics and Datamining, MSc. Applied Statistics and Datamining at University of St Andrews
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at The University of Edinburgh