Harlan Harris
About Me
PhD Data Scientist, team leader, and professional community influencer.
Location
New York, New York
Madison, Wisconsin
Education
U
University of Wisconsin-Madison
August 1991 - May 1995
degree
Bachelor's
major
Computer Science
minor
Linguistics
U
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 1997 - August 2003
Work Experience
W
WayUp
Director of Data Science
June 2017 - present
company
WayUp
title
Director of Data Science
W
WeWork
Director of Data Science
December 2016 - June 2017
T
The Advisory Board Company
Director, Data Science
June 2014 - August 2016
S
Sentrana
Solutions Architect
June 2013 - June 2014
K
Kaplan Test Prep
DATA SCIENTIST
September 2009 - May 2013
Fun Fact
When I was six years old, I wrote on a worksheet that when I grew up, I wanted to be either a mathematician or a farmer. (No, I didn't spell mathematician correctly!)
Passion
Food and cooking! Particularly Sichuanese and Hunanese food, and Mediterranean cuisines.
Skills
Languages
FrenchJapanese
Technical skills
gitjuliapythonr sql
Skills
Business Intelligence and Data WarehousesMachine LearningStatistical Data Analysis
Gigs / Freelance
D
Data Community DC
Co-Founder, Board Member Emeritus
November 2011 - May 2016
Volunteer
D
DataKind
Leadership
Community of Urbana-Champaign Cooperative Housing
Co-founder, Treasurer, President
Author, Analyzing the Analyzers (O'Reilly, 2012)
Hobbies
Cooking
Reading
Cycling
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Videos
My talk about software architecture to the NYC R Conference in 2015.
A panel discussion at Data Gotham 2013, talking about professional community development.
The best thing I've ever done -- relating the professional-community development work we did in DC to the scene at CBGBs in the 70s, riffing on thoughts by David Byrne.
DataGotham 2012 - Harlan Harris, Data Science DC
September 2012
My talk to Data Gotham 2012, about the research that was later written up as Analyzing the Analyzers.