giovanni fossati

about me

Scientist with 10+ years research experience in astrophysics on the faculty at a top-tier university actively seeking opportunities in data science to apply to real-world challenges my skills, talent and passion for data-driven quantitative analysis, modeling and interpretation.

Please take a look at my resume.

data science

I am hosting on GitHub Pages examples of data science projects I have done in the last few months. I am still in the process of pushing them and linking them on this site,

• myTextPredictr a text prediction application
  • The application on shinyapps.io
  • Progress Report
  • Final Report (in progress)
  • Slide deck with summary and basic information about algorithm
  • Repository
• Rent vs. Buy Calculator (simulation-based).
  • The Calculator on shinyapps.io
  • Introduction, general information
  • Analysis of market returns
• (Challenge) Modeling of Synthetic Dataset
• Baby Names
• Bike Sharing data
• Human Activity 1: Steps History and Patterns
• Human Activity 2: ML-based Assessment of the Quality of Weight-lifting Exercises
• Human and Economic Cost of Major Storm Events: An Analysis of the NOAA/NCDC Database
• User Retention predictive modeling (soon)
• NYT Blog Post Popularity predictive modeling (soon)

astrophysics

I intend to use this page to showcase my Data Science projects, but I might add highlights of my astrophysics research.
For now, if you are interested I invite you to review my publications on Google Scholar. or on the NASA Astrophysics Database