Josh Ivack
Data Science at Creative Artists Agency
- Role
- Lead Data Scientist at Creative Artists Agency
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Josh Ivack
I watch a lot of movies and I am passionate about applied statistics and machine learning
Experience
Lead Data Scientist
Apr 2022 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
I am the lead developer for all movie related data science projects. I design, build, and maintain a portfolio of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models ranging from recommender systems to predictive models- Collaborate with industry experts to design, develop, deploy, and maintain a suite of advanced statistical and machine learning models in Python - Integrate domain expertise with traditional statistical methods and Natural Language Processing to develop a sophisticated recommender system, combining unstructured text data with structured data to calculate distance based similarity - Partner with data engineers and analytics developers to architect robust data pipelines and structures that identify and mitigate data quality issues through improved validation and storage practices - Lead the evaluation and integration of new data sources, enhancing data quality and diversity to support analytical needs - Mentor and develop team members across various levels by sharing domain expertise and best practices in movie data analysis - Commonly use Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, PCA, and various NLP techniques with Python
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics
Youngstown State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Analytics, Minor: Statistics
Skills
- Spss
- Research
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Business Intelligence
- Principal Component Analysis
- Analytics
- Sql
- Teamwork
- Time Management
- Cluster Analysis
- Sas
- Statistics
- Factor Analysis
- Data Mining
- Multivariate Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Hypothesis Testing
- R
- Statistical Learning
- Classification
- Tableau
- Time Series Analysis
- Text Analytics
- Vba
- Data Visualization
- Algorithms
- Regression Analysis
- Predictive Analytics
- Cat Guardianship
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