James Bianca

Background

About James Bianca

How does someone with a sculpture degree and substantive experience in tv and film segue into IT and come to love Python and data science? It was a wandering road, that’s for sure, but along the way, I’ve garnered art commissions, built a semblance of a museum, created scorpions out of wax – in fact, I even built an outhouse once. After all of that, I’ve settled on data science as the perfect marriage of storytelling and technology.Besides some great anecdotes about a Call of Duty pseudo-museum, an ill-fated VR comedy show involving a chimpanzee, and a pinata shaped like a brain, I’ve honed my hands-on problem-solving skills as well as my ability to work independently on projects no matter how large in scope. Through my coursework – both the academic classes I’ve taken the supplemental instruction I seek out on my own, I’ve sharpened my technical skills, including:Programming languages and frameworks include Python, HTML 5, JQuery, JavaScript, SQL, MYSQL, CSS, C/C++, VBScript Software experience with subversion control (GIT), AWS, MongoDB, Visual Studio, Xcode, Atom, Mendix, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Access, advanced Excel, and Active Directory; experience with Windows, Linux, and OSX operating systems; basic knowledge of Photoshop, and IllustratorGetting back to data and why it’s central to my own story and to almost every decision companies face, I decided to focus in this realm because I am adept at not just approaching a data set and understanding how to make sense of it but also giving it to key stakeholders in a format that essentially speaks in terms they can easily digest. Whenever you want to talk about this extraordinary blend of art and science that I’ve created, it’s easy to reach out to me here on LinkedIn. You can also find me at github.com/jmbiancaData and james.m.bianca@gmail.com.