Jess Chace

Investigator | Data Scientist
    Jess Chace is an experienced investigator
    in both public and private spheres with updated
    tech skills in Python, Exploratory Data Analysis,
    Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing,
    and Data Visualization.

About Me

Jess Chace is an experienced investigator in both public and private spheres with updated tech skills in programming languages (Python, Scala), relational databases (SQL, Git), exploratory data analysis, data enrichment, feature engineering, data modeling (regression and classification), machine learning (sklearn, imblearn), natural language processing (vectorization, sentiment analysis, gensim, Latent Dirichlet Allocation), web-scraping & APIs, image classification (keras, Tensorflow), big data (AWS, Spark), and data visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Tableau). She relies on a combination of programming skills, statistical analysis, data mining, machine learning, common sense, and instinct to identify and predict purpose-driven problems for government agencies and government-adjacent consulting firms.

When Jess isn’t modeling or visualizing her data, she likes to spend time with her dog and cat, read, cook new recipes, and practice her ukulele.

Jess graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics: Greek from Barnard College, Columbia University. She boosted her career with a 12-week Data Science Immersive Course from General Assembly.

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    Q & A

  • What’s the best advice you’ve heard recently?

    When deciding whether to take GA’s Data Science Immersive, I heard: “You can keep getting older and get that certificate or keep getting older and don’t, but regardless, you’ll keep getting older.” It’s never too late to learn a new skill.

  • What is a product that you wish existed?

    An AI Ukulele instructor

  • What is an awesome place you’ve visited?

    While I was working in Malaysia, I took a side trip to Singapore for a few days. I’ll never forget walking among the “supertrees” in the Gardens by the Bay and visiting the Flower Dome.