Résumé

206-707-5505 · vanessacollier.datascience@gmail.com
LinkedIn · GitHub

Summary

Data analyst with experience delivering actionable insights across policy, research, and economic domains. Skilled in building automated data pipelines, cleaning complex datasets, and developing interactive dashboards to communicate findings effectively.

Experience

Research Professional III (Data Analyst / Analytics Engineer)
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) · University of Alaska Anchorage Nov 2022 – 2025

Built web scraping pipeline for grocery data across Alaska communities
Developed automated cleaning and data integrity workflows
Created dashboards for economic and migration analysis
Presented findings to policymakers including Rep. Mary Peltola
Led GitHub transition for data reproducibility
Managed full lifecycle data projects from acquisition to reporting

Education

M.S. Data Analytics and Policy
Johns Hopkins University Aug 2022

B.A. Political Science
University of Washington Aug 2007

Technical Skills

Programming & Data Engineering

R Python SQL HTML CSS GitHub

Data pipelines · Web scraping · REST APIs · Scheduled workflows · Reproducible research

R Ecosystem

tidyverse Shiny ggplot2 plotly gganimate sf tidymodels randomForest caret plm reticulate rmarkdown knitr rvest httr data.table jsonlite

Python

Pandas NumPy SciPy Matplotlib Seaborn Plotly Selenium

Statistical Methods
Regression · Panel models · Machine learning (classification, random forests) · EDA · Survey analysis · Spatial analysis

Tools

ArcGIS Pro RStudio Posit Cloud Qualtrics Adobe Illustrator

Certifications

ArcGIS Foundations — Udemy / University of Alaska Fairbanks
Human Subjects Research — CITI
SQL Associate - DataCamp (in progress, expected June 2026)

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