Michael Kranz
Senior Data Scientist, Health Sciences
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kranz is a Senior Data Scientist specializing in health sciences with a decade of experience translating behavioral and clinical research into robust analytic products. Currently at NORC at the University of Chicago, he has progressed from hands-on data science to senior technical roles shaping health-focused analytics and study design. His background bridges neuroscience, psychology, and visual cognition (PhD), enabling him to apply rigorous experimental thinking to complex real-world health data and behavior-change problems (formerly at CVS Health). Comfortable moving models from prototype to production, he blends academic rigor with practical impact across survey research and healthcare analytics. Colleagues describe him as someone who uncovers signal in noisy human-centered data and turns it into actionable insights for policy and care.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Neuroscience, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Neuroscience at Washington University in St. LouisUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (32)
tabular8
metadata8
devops7
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golang7
cookiecutter7
dictionary7
api7
metadata-management7
data-catalog6
ai6
machine-learning6
data-dictionary6
json6
dplyr5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jcoin-maarc/jdc-utilities
May 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:126 pushes, 5 branches, 10 tags in 1 year 10 months
HEAL/healdata-utils
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
HEAL data packaging tools
Contributions:24 releases, 44 PRs, 247 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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