Uğur Y.

Data Scientist at Slingshot Finance
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Berkeley, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • May 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • 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

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Data Science Intern
      • 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

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • Computational Social Scientist
      • 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

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Consultant
      • 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

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology
    2014 - 2020
  • University of California, Berkeley
    Master of Arts - MA, Statistics
    2018 - 2019
  • Boğaziçi University
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Political Science and International Relations
    2009 - 2014
  • Boğaziçi University
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Summa Cum Laude, Sociology
    2009 - 2014
  • Robert College
    High School
    2004 - 2009

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