Christopher Smith

Data Science

New Zealand

About

I am curious and passionate about understanding the world and enjoy solving problems using data. I developed my analytical skills by completing a PhD in Psychology and doing research work. Later I switched to data science and completed a Master of Applied Data Science and then built prediction models for AgResearch. I now work as a Data Scientist at Parrot Analytics.

Experience

  • Parrot Analytics (Full-time · 3 yrs 8 mos)
    • Data Scientist
      May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

      Time Series Forecasting Machine learning modelling of streaming platform metrics Analysis of marketing campaign impact

    • Graduate Data Scientist
      Nov 2022 - May 2023 · 7 mos

  • AgResearch (1 yr 1 mo)
    • Data Scientist (Casual Contract)
      Feb 2022 - Nov 2022 · 10 mos

    • Data Science Summer Intern
      Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 · 4 mos

      I worked on a project that explored applying different dimensionality reduction techniques to the microbiome of sheep in order to predict their methane emissions.

  • Research Assistant at University of Otago, Wellington
    Mar 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

    I worked as a research assistant in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine. I was involved in creating research projects, analysing data, doing interviews and writing papers.

  • University of Otago (2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Assistant Research Fellow
      Nov 2018 - Mar 2019 · 5 mos

      I worked on a literature review and research proposal for measuring the value added by university education for the University of Otago.

    • Demonstrator/ Tutorial teacher
      Feb 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

      I worked as a demonstrator in psychology lab classes. I led the sessions, teaching concepts and completing the lab experiments with students.

  • Research Assistant at University of Otago
    Feb 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

    I worked as a research assistant in a pigeon neuroscience and cognition lab. I was involved in running the experiments, collecting data etc.