Michael Erb

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About Michael Erb

Data Scientist with experience in machine learning, NLP, data acquisition, visualization, and modeling, and statistical analysis. With a background in computer science and as a small business entrepreneur, I bring strong skills in project management and problem solving that help small to midsize companies and organizations find solutions to new and existing problems, analyze operations, pinpoint and model growth opportunities, and manage their implementation. Projects: Classify news stories as fake or truthful to help a social media platform reduce its risk of negative PR and related financial losses using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning Predict the operational status of waterpoints to help the Tanzanian Government provide more clean water to its population using a Machine Learning Classifier Monitor the reception of a new mobile phone on Twitter to help a business reduce its risk of failure and improve product quality using Machine Learning Sentiment Analysis Predict housing prices to help a startup complete a beta version of its product using Multivariate Linear Regression Recommend the best movie genre for production to help executives at a new movie studio have the best return on their investment and probability of profitability using Exploratory Data Analysis Github: Blog: https://merb92.medium.com