Samantha Toet
Data Scientist
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Toet is a data scientist and community-focused solutions engineer with nine years of experience applying statistics and modeling in R and Python to inform equitable decision-making. Based in Charlottesville, she currently advances community-university partnerships at the Center for Community Partnerships and serves as a social data scientist with the Virginia Equity Center. Her background includes partner-facing roles at Posit where she bridged technical products and organizational adoption, plus marketing analytics work that sharpened her insights into user behavior and impact measurement. A longtime advocate for diversity in tech, she founded R-Ladies Charlottesville and led R Consortium inclusion initiatives, translating community engagement into practice and policy. Trained in social psychology, she blends quantitative rigor with human-centered perspectives to design analyses that surface structural inequities and actionable outcomes. Colleagues value her ability to move between deep technical modeling and cross-sector partnership building to ensure data drives equitable change.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Psychology - Distinguished Major's Thesis Program, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Psychology - Distinguished Major's Thesis Program at University of Virginia
French
Github Skills (43)
r-package10
r9
interoperability9
starter-kit9
tidyverse9
tibble9
tsne9
tidymodels9
tidy9
dplyr8
earth8
yelp8
fusion7
science7
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RLadiesCharlottesville/R4DS
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
2018 Summer of Data Science Book Club: R for Data Science
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
sciencedata-sciencebook-clubrstatsmachine-learning
SamanthaToet/yelpr
May 2019 - Jan 2020
R client for working with Yelp's Fusion API
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 8 months
r-packageapiyelpfusion
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