Dana Chandler
Data Science Manager | ex-Instagram, Hinge, Citadel
- Role
- Data Science Consultant at BNY Pershing
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dana Chandler
Dana is an MIT-trained Data Scientist (PhD Economics) with 10+ years of data science experience across multiple domains including: tech companies, data science consulting, and finance. He is especially skilled at experiment design, predictive modeling, and causal methods.Since his PhD, Dana has been a Lead Data Scientist and Data Science Manager. As a manager, Dana enjoys being a \"player-coach,\" who provides technical and career mentorship to a high-performing team.Prior to his PhD, he worked in management consulting, private equity, and as a research assistant for Professor Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics. These early experiences taught Dana the importance of “telling stories with data” and ensuring that findings are always digestible, visual, and actionable for business stakeholders.
Experience
Data Science Consultant
May 2024 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US
Hired by Chief Product Officer to provide end-to-end recommendations for Product Analytics function. Provide DS support to investigate high-impact areas such as: creation of usage metrics to guide strategy for NetX360, a portal used by tens of thousands of financial advisors to manage over $2 trillion in assets; efficacy of personalized recommendations to advisors; and sizing opportunities for growing ETF and Mutual Fund distribution.Converted to FTE at end of contract (Head of Product Analytics, Commercial Products).
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Economics
2010 — 2014
University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics
Skills
- Labor Economics
- Python
- Strategy
- Data Science
- Econometrics
- Data Analysis
- Statistics
- Git
- Economics
- Machine Learning
- R
- Sql
- Management
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