Mhairi McNeill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMhairi 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.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,971reputation
157kreached
73answers
3questions
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top-5%
Github Skills (20)
r9
r-package9
usergroup8
plumber8
api7
na6
csv6
tm6
mean6
regression6
topic-modeling6
dplyr6
subset6
ggplot6
dataframe6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mhairi/mhairi.github.io
Sep 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
codeclan/CodeClanData
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Data repo for the data course
Contributions:45 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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