Michael Wood
Instructor at Ohio University
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wood is a data scientist and instructor with 11 years of experience applying analytics to political and issue campaigns, where his domain-first approach helped uncover an overlooked edge that improved outcomes by over 16%. He has designed and delivered large-scale training—running bootcamps for 200+ students and 8,000 cumulative instructional hours—while maintaining hands-on practice building SQL, Redshift, R, and Python pipelines and dashboards for national advocacy groups and federal races. Michael has led data teams and technical implementations from CRM launches to ETL and payroll systems, translating complex datasets into KPIs and forecasts that drive strategy. Now teaching at Ohio University and heading curriculum at Generation Data, he blends practitioner experience with pedagogy to upskill the next generation of campaign data professionals. An early-career breakthrough on an issue campaign still informs his curiosity for the subtle, high-leverage analytics that decide close contests.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Career Track, Data Science Career Track at SpringboardBachelor of Arts - BA, American Government and Politics (United States), Bachelor of Arts - BA, American Government and Politics (United States) at Earlham College
Github Skills (49)
trend10
pipeline8
java8
operation7
transition7
python7
data-analysis6
singer6
mssql6
data-collection6
postgresql6
mysql6
snowflake6
change-data-capture5
api5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mhbw/springboard
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:55 pushes in 1 year 6 months
mhbw/datasciencecoursera
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 9 months
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