Samuel Louissaint

Samuel Louissaint

MS in Data Science and Business Analytics Candidate

University of North Carolina - Charlotte

About

Samuel Louissaint is a UNC Chapel Hill alum with a BA in Economics, with minors in Statistics and PPE. He is also a first-year graduate student in UNC Charlotte’s Data Science & Business Analytics PSM program. His research interests include natural language processing and recommender systems.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Recommender Systems
  • Data Visualization
Education

  • MS in Data Science & Business Analytics, December 2022

    UNC Charlotte

  • BA in Economics, May 2021

    UNC Chapel Hill

Skills

R
Python
SQL

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
ISC Data Steward
UNC Charlotte Urban Institute
Sep 2021 – Present Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities include:

  • ETL
  • Data Wrangling and Preprocessing
  • Database Management
 
 
 
 
 
Investment Analyst Intern
Nanovest, Inc.
Oct 2019 – Aug 2020 North Carolina

Responsibilities include:

  • Market Research
  • Analyzing
  • Reporting
 
 
 
 
 
Office Assistant
UNC Housing
Aug 2018 – May 2021 Chapel Hill, NC

Responsibilities include:

  • Database Management
  • Auditing
  • Customer Service
 
 
 
 
 
Human Resources Assistant
UNC Chemistry Department
Sep 2017 – May 2018 Chapel Hill, NC

Responsibilities include:

  • Auditing
  • Payroll Coordination

Recent Posts

Applied Machine Learning - Observing Data
This is the first entry in a series where I will be using R to replicate a graduate-level applied machine learning course that is purely in Python. The goal of the first class period was to introduce some of the data manipulation packages in Python to students.
Last updated on Mar 24, 2022 14 min read R, Applied Machine Learning
Spidey Sentiment
Releasing in theaters on December 17th, 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home has surpassed box office expectations and achieved opening weekend numbers that rival pre-pandemic figures. That being said, I still haven’t found my way to a movie theater to watch it myself.
Last updated on Dec 28, 2021 2 min read
Spotify Hits
It doesn’t take an avid music listener to notice that many popular songs have the same formula to them. Radio stations can often sound like the same song is playing on repeat, with slightly different variants of the same song gaining recognition and winning awards.
Last updated on Mar 23, 2022 11 min read

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