Edward Owens

Data Scientist at Nextdoor

Edward Owens has a diverse work experience spanning from 2011 to present. Edward first started as a Sales Intern at Cloud Conversion, where they generated lists of small businesses and conducted cold-calls to inform them about the company's capabilities. In 2013, they worked as a Private Equity Summer Analyst at Grey Mountain Partners, conducting research on the Keystone XL pipeline and analyzing prospective portfolio companies. In 2014, they were a Summer Intern at Rosemark Capital Group, where they contributed to the development of the firm's sourcing process and conducted research on the cyber-security industry.

From 2015 to 2015, Edward worked as an Equity Analyst at DSW Investment, conducting equity research, utilizing R script to download fund holdings, and improving the portfolio manager's Excel valuation template. In 2018, they transitioned to being a Data Scientist at Manifold, leading a team to predict the landing location of a golf ball using image recognition and regression techniques. Edward also presented the project to VCs through a web app.

Currently, Edward is a Data Scientist at Nextdoor, where they have held various roles. Edward creates posts about weather phenomena by training machine learning models and writes code to ingest data and transform it into readable posts with charts/images. Edward also developed a gradient boosting classifier to downrank posts about national politics, leading to a reduction in views of this content.

Edward Owens has a strong educational background in the field of data science, business intelligence, and analytics. Edward earned a Master's of Science degree in Data Science from the University of San Francisco in 2019. Prior to that, they completed a Master's of Science degree in Business Intelligence & Analytics from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2018.

In terms of undergraduate education, Owens attended Princeton University from 2011 to 2016, where they obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

In addition to their formal education, Owens has also achieved certifications in finance. Edward successfully passed Levels 1 and 2 of the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) exams in June 2017.

Based on the provided information, no further assumptions can be made about the individual's education history.

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Timeline

  • Data Scientist

    January, 2021 - present

  • Data Scientist Software Engineer

    August, 2019