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    Jake Ralston

    Jake Ralston

    Jake has a Ph. D. in Mathematics from The University of Maryland, College Park. Originally an algebraic topologist, Jake worked as a trader at Bridgewater Associates for two years after completing his degree. He is now a data scientist with skills in Python, R, and SQL seeking to solve challenging business problems. Jake will be on the job market in July 2018.

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    Machine Learning

    Using Machine Learning to Build a Predictive Model for House Prices

    by Josh Vichare, Jake Ralston, Olga Yangol and Igor Gitlevich
    Jun 14, 2018
    Introduction The purpose of this project was to build a model to predict housing prices in Ames, Iowa...
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    Student Works

    Yelp Scraping for a Dish Recommender

    by Jake Ralston
    May 21, 2018
    Introduction For this project (github link) I set out to build an app that recommends what dish to...
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    Student Works

    Visualizing NYC Traffic Collisions

    by Jake Ralston
    May 6, 2018
    For this project I chose to build an R Shiny App (app here - github here) to visualize traffic...
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