Nice to meet you, I’m

KENNETH FOSTER

I’m a Data Professional with 5+ years of experience and a Master’s Degree in Quantitative Economics from UCLA. I’m here to help you with:

• Data Analytics/Data Science
• Business Intelligence
• Statistical Modeling

You can find me on LinkedIn

Portfolio

Econometrics

The Value of an Associate’s Degree after the GFC
Regression Analysis
Before the Great Financial Crash of the late 2000s, an Associate’s degree was a viable, low-cost option with a measurable wage premium. Read this analysis to see how that changed.

• Notebook
• Presentation

Master’s Capstone Project: Assistance Amounts in Rapid Re-Housing
Regression Analysis / Exploratory Data Analysis
Some families who experience homelessness in Los Angeles receive financial assistance with paying rent. Some organizations spend more per family than others, and for my master’s capstone project I modeled how they decide how much to spend.

• Report

Machine Learning

Sentiment Analysis: TextBlob vs. TensorFlow
Sequential Neural Network / Text Embedding Model
These days, there are sentiment analysis tools that work right out of the box, but how well do they work? An analysis shows that a relatively simple neural net can outperform a tool like TextBlob, and require only a couple hours of training.

• Notebook
• Report

Dashboards & Data Visualization

The Billboard Hot 100 Artist Explorer
Tableau / SQL
I love music that is twice as old as I am, and love learning about the musicians that created it. So, I created a dashboard to give me a quick outline of when an artist had their first hit and when they hit peak popularity using data from the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Currently updated through 2021.

• Dashboard