Employment

Data Scientist Oct. 2016 - Present

City of Edmonton Edmonton, AB

Work with different departments across the City of Edmonton to find opportunities to use data science to improve processes.
Perform data mining, analysis, visualization on a variety of data sets using Python or R.
Present actionable insights to executives.
Create Flask and Shiny web application and dashboards.

Private Tutor Nov. 2015 - Sep. 2016

Tutor Doctor Calgary, AB

Graduate Student Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2015

Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC

Education

M.Sc Nuclear Chemistry Sep. 2012 - Sep. 2015

Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC

B.Sc Chemistry Sep. 2008 - Jul. 2012

University of Calgary Calgary, AB

Online Courses

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: Python, R, C, Unix/Linux Shell
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS/SCSS, Flask, Shiny, Jinja
Databases/Storage: PostgreSQL, Redis, Oracle, Datalakes
Machine Learning Techniques: Linear/Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Clustering, Anomaly Detection
Other Tools and Skills: git, Jupyter/IPython, LaTex, Heroku, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services

Projects/Presentations/Tutorials

To see a complete list of my project visit my Github account

A tutorial covering popular classification algorithms and how to apply them using sklearn in Python. Tutorial presented at the Women in Data Science and Machine Learning meetup in Edmonton, AB.

A tutorial on how to perform time series analysis in Python. Tutorial presented at the Python meetup in Edmonton, AB.

A method for establishing absolute full-energy peak efficiency and its confidence interval for HPGe detectors

Challenging mathematical/computer programming programs; currently solved more than 30 problems using C and/or Python.

Usman Rizwan