I am a dedicated and focused individual who is eager to learn as much as I can in the field of data science.
Matthew Zapata
Data Scientist
Matthew Zapata
Hired
Data Scientist
Available Work Locations: San Antonio, TX
Core Technologies: Python, MySQL, Spark, Tableau, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciKitLearn, Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, Git/GitHub
Core Competencies: Data Storytelling, Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Classification, Regression, Clustering, Time Series Analysis, Anomaly Detection
Hire Me Because
My Capstone Project: Drought Predictions for San Antonio Using Time Series Analysis
The goal of this project was to predict when the next major drought will be occurring for San Antonio within a year span. Knowing when to expect a drought will allow city and county officials to better prepare for one, perhaps by putting water restrictions into affect earlier or by some other means. This will also greatly benefit farmers in the area since they rely on their crops or livestock to have access to water, and knowing when a drought is coming can also give them time to prepare for that. We first spent time gathering, cleaning, and understanding our data, then we went started creating our time series models. After fine tuning our model, we created a presentation of our findings, which we then presented to an audience at Data Scientist Day.
“With technology, I am most passionate about how there is more than one way to reach your end goal, it just depends on how creative you want to be.“