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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.

Articles Contributed by Jake Ralston

Data Visualization

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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Data Visualization

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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