Spencer Simon - Data Scientist

Spencer Simon

Data Scientist

New York, New York, United States

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Summary

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Spencer Simon is a data scientist with eight years of experience applying analytics to education and civic tech, currently building data products at QuestBridge to expand opportunities for low-income students. With an MS in Applied Data Science and a background in middle school teaching through Teach For America, he blends rigorous technical skills—SQL, Python, BigQuery, GCP—and a practitioner’s empathy for educators and learners. He has delivered production-ready dashboards and geospatial pipelines for NYC Planning after ingesting 20 years of data, and consistently turns complex data into clear visual stories that inform decision-making. Spencer’s trajectory from mechanical engineering and lab research to classroom instruction and civic data work gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on problem framing, data quality, and stakeholder communication.

8 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering, Minors in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering, Minors in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University

Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science (Analytics), Master of Science - MS, Applied Data Science (Analytics) at University of Chicago

Master of Arts - MA, Teaching, Master of Arts - MA, Teaching at Relay Graduate School of Education

English, Spanish

Github Skills (11)

pluto9

elevation8

geodesy7

geo7

wfs6

geography6

geospatial5

wms4

tms4

ogc3

database-access2

Programming languages (2)

ShellPython

Github contributions (5)

SSimon16/music-league-analysis

Jan 2021 - Nov 2021

Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months

SSimon16/2017-ME224

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year

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