GEORGE

MCINTIRE

DATA SCIENTIST |
JOURNALIST
geo.mcintire@gmail.com
240.994.9793
San Francisco, CA
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Data Science Work

Article Commissioned By Treasure Data
Tested and wrote about the e

cacy of running pandas scripts in the 244GB AWS instance R3.8xlarge.

Article Commissioned By Priceonomics

A data analysis of Obamacare subsidies. Looked at the relationship between the subsidies received by a congressional
district and how its representative voted on the Obamacare bill itself.

"Datafying Police Violence"

Final project of the Metis program, in which we applied the skills and knowledge we learned to a project of our own
design. Usedcensus data to predict the occurrence of a police o cer involved shooting in a given zip code.

Mortgage Loan Targeting - Machine Learning Project

Skills
PROGRAMMING
Python
DATA VISUALIZATION
Matplotlib
Seaborn
STATISTICAL AND MACHINE
LEARNING PACKAGES
Pandas
Numpy
Scikit Learn
DATABASES
SQL

A Metis group project, where we used machine learning techniques on data from a survey of a bank's customers. Our
objective was to nd which demographic qualities (job, age, education, etc) were most likely to apply for housing loans.

Super Tuesday Twitter Sentiment Analysis - Natural Language Project

Metis project analyzing 30,000 tweets featuring the hashtag #SuperTuesday culled from the Twitter API. I charted trends
in polarity and subjectivity of tweets over the course of Super Tuesday and found the top words and phrases of
#SuperTuesday for each half hour interval between 4:00pm and 10:00pm EST.

Experience
Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
Contributing Data Science Writer

Research, write, & edit articles on Data Science, contribute to the e ort on studying, analyzing and choosing
speakers suitable to speak at Open Data Science Conferences.
Apply research and study new trends that are relevant to Data Science. Contribute in the e orts of tagging, editing
written articles and videos.

General Assembly

Data Science Instructional Associate

Education
Occidental College
BA Economics 2011

San Francisco, CA
Aug 2016 to Current

San Francisco, CA
Jul 2016 to Current

Provide support to the lead instructor of GA's 11-week part-time Data Science course.
Mentor and provide feedback to students on their learning process.
Shape and facilitate an environment that is conducive to learning.

Metis

Data Scientist

San Francisco, CA
Jan 2016 to Apr 2016

Metis is a 12 week data science boot camp that focuses on tackling real-world problems. It is an immersive program
focused on teaching end-to-end design, implementation and communication of data science projects. The course covers
topics in programming, statistics, machine learning, data visualization, and iterative design.

Freelance

Journalist/Fact Checker

San Francisco, CA
Nov 2011 to Current

Pitch and write articles for a number of publications including SF Weekly, Vice, Salon, and more. Coverage includes
music, tech, culture, politics, and urban issues.
Freelance fact checking for California Sunday Magazine. Assignments include a 4500-word pro le of Los Angeles
Chef Roy Choi and 1000-word pro le of skateboarder Lizzie Armanto.

The Bold Italic

Editorial Intern

San Francisco, CA
Apr 2014 to Aug 2014

Wrote daily blog posts about breaking news, cultural trends, and other various happenings in San Francisco. Averaged
5,000 hits per post. Wrote features such as Everything Youve Ever Wanted To Know About The Word Hella, Fantasy
Bart Map, and Your Guide To San Francisco Beaches.

San Francisco Magazine

Editorial Intern

San Francisco , CA
Jun 2013 to Dec 2013

Factchecked six articles per-issue for a regional monthly publication. Pitched and wrote front-of-book and web stories.
Uploaded factchecked stories into www.sanfranmag.coms CMS. Factchecked the majority of November 2013s cover
story Cranespotting.