Uğur Y.
Data Scientist at Slingshot Finance- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Slingshot Finance
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Scientist
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May 2022 - Present
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Robinhood
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Scientist
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Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
* Designed, executed, and analyzed incentive studies that brought in new customers in a cost-efficient manner assessed in terms of lift and incremental payback period * Built and productionized a time series model to predict trading volume and visualized the results in an Airflow-integrated Looker dashboard updated weekly * Co-developed a Python package to estimate causal impact using observational time series data, and the package was used to analyze the performance of multiple… Show more * Designed, executed, and analyzed incentive studies that brought in new customers in a cost-efficient manner assessed in terms of lift and incremental payback period * Built and productionized a time series model to predict trading volume and visualized the results in an Airflow-integrated Looker dashboard updated weekly * Co-developed a Python package to estimate causal impact using observational time series data, and the package was used to analyze the performance of multiple promotions across different teams Show less
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Quora
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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300 - 400 Employee
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Data Science Intern
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Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
* Analyzed historical data using Python and SQL to assess the impact on the platform of slow processing times at a major company queue * Successfully advocated for a large implementation change that saved the company around $400,000 for the fiscal year 2019 * Collaborated with the product manager and other data scientists on my team and communicated findings to stakeholders
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TagWorks
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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Computational Social Scientist
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Oct 2018 - May 2019
* Scraped and parsed an online text corpus of thousands of articles using Python to be used on the company’s data labeling platform * Built a custom named-entity recognition classifier using Python and Stanford CoreNLP
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D-Lab, UC Berkeley
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United States
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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Jan 2018 - May 2018
* Solved clients’ statistics and programming (Python, R, Stata) related questions, including machine learning basics, co-occurrence analysis, dimensionality reduction (PCA), web scraping, and GitHub
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology -
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Arts - MA, Statistics -
Boğaziçi University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Political Science and International Relations -
Boğaziçi University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Sociology -
Robert College
High School