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Preliminary Consulting work

I entered the gig economy to make some extra cash by establishing an exploratory data science gig on Fiverr.com. I met many interesting clients and completed for a variety of interesting projects. I accumulated 13 reviews over 22 orders, all of which were 5 star.

Notable Projects:

Variance of wall thickeness in Iroquois pottery. This client was a student looking for statistical help on behalf of their lab. Their group had gathered pottery fragments from several Iroquois sites in southern Onterio, and were interested in ascertaining which pots in their samples were cooking vessesls. They had one vessel that they knew was for cooking because there was abundant residue on the inner wall, but the rest of the vessels were less straightforward. During a whiteboard session, they described a prevailing theory in archeology that wall thickness consistency played a considerable part in the how ancient peoples chose their cooking pots, as uniform thickness increases durability and heats evenly. Working within this theory, we determined that the best course of action was to compare the variances of the vessels to the known cooking vessel, which helped us identify over half of the vessels as candidate cooking pots for further forensic examination.

Hypsographic Demography of the United States. This client was a documentary filmmaker investigating the effects of decreasing concentrations of atmospheric oxygen. They had already looked into the effects on fighter pilots, and was interested in looking into migration from higher altitudes. After looking into altitude sickness, they hypothesised that decreasing oxygen concentrations on top of thinner air may increase the incidence of complications resulting from altitude sickness, and this would cause individuals to migrate to lower altitudes. Following the methodology of Joel E. Cohen and Christopher Small, I calculated the average elevation of every county in the United States and combined it with census data from 1960-2010 to determine if there was a net migration away from higher altitudes at various age levels. Surpisingly enough, I found that the proportion of individuals living at higher altitudes had increased over the last 80 years, regardless of age cohort.

Preliminary Consulting work

Southwick Associates is an economics and wildlife consulting organization that has consulted for a variety of organizations ranging from the National Shooting Sports Foundation to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. I have helped Southwick on a number of projects since 2020 as an economics and data science consultant.