Robert Shaffer
Data Scientist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Shaffer is a data scientist with a PhD in Political Science and an MS in Data Science, bringing a decade of experience applying machine learning, statistical software development, and data management to public-sector and academic problems. He currently works at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after roles managing programs at BlueLabs and conducting postdoctoral research at Syracuse and Penn, where he translated complex behavioral and policy questions into reproducible analytic pipelines. Robert excels at extracting signal from messy behavioral and text data using NLP and tailored statistical methods, and he has built backend data tools for large comparative projects early in his career. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines rigorous social science training with production-focused data engineering, making him adept at turning research-grade models into operational insights for policy.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Government at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science and Government at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (21)
rcpparmadillo9
cran8
least-squares8
kernel7
cpp6
formulas4
cross-validation3
predictive-modeling3
machine-learning2
keras2
bitcoin1
bitcoin-core1
named-entity-recognition1
r-package1
jekyll1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rbshaffer/narg
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
mayhewsw/legal-linking
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Linking of legal documents to other legal documents.
Contributions:17 commits in 3 months
legal-documentslegallinking
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