Past Projects

100% Writing

• What Kind of Scientist Are You? – An essay about my journey out of academia.
• The Ship and the Shovel – 4 years ago, in a science journalism class, I read Italo Calvino and hated it so much that I wrote a piece full of flowery language on the need to write clearly.
• How Great a Separation – Reviewing The Gap, a comparative psychology book, published in Science magazine
• F.R.I.S.K.I.E.S – My teammates Jeremy Watssman, Anyi Sun and I won ProtoHack in April 2017 with this pitch. Basically, robot cat assassins.

30% Data, 70% Writing

• Chicken Wings and the Super Bowl – An analysis on what people eat during the Super Bowl
• Your Browser History and New Year’s Resolutions – A look at how people set and pursue their New Year’s Resolutions
• Exposure to Trump vs. Clinton – Examining browsing behavior leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election
• Influence Over Impressions: Ranking Publishers By Time To Purchase – A model for ranking the influence of publishers by considering the time between exposure to an ad, and an actual purchase
• Random Research – These are small projects that I’ve done for fun. They include settling arguments about whether you “eat” or “drink” soup, as well as whether eating oatmeal with pasta sauce is gross.

80% Data, 20% Writing

• Mediocre Museum – My friend Emilia and I wanted to find the most average artifact in Canada’s Science and Technology Museums.
• 10 Graphs – A pointless exercise where I recreate the same plot using ten different libraries to see how they look.
• Mousetracking Altruism – At NYU’s couple’s lab, we wanted to learn more about how people allocate resources within relationships.
• Skytrax Ratings – I wanted to find out what factors when people chose to recommend airlines vs. not.
• Hack for Heat – I volunteered with Heat Seek, an NYC based non-profit that deploys temperature sensors to ensure that everyone in the city has adequate heating over the winter.

100% Data

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