Robert McDonnell, PhD

Lead on flagship data science projects; fraud detection, automated client reporting, dockerizing data science; R & Python. Creator of 'Cryptolytics' encrypted data analysis project.

Member of small dedicated data strategy team for global First Data data strategy; fraud detection using statistical models trained on huge amounts of data; scalability and deployment of machine learning models; real-time machine learning prediction engines.

I give private classes and larger courses in R to people of various backgrounds, usually starting with data importing, cleaning, tidying and arranging, and then moving on to R's graphics capabilities, statistical modelling and report writing & publishing with R markdown. Some examples of blog posts I've written on R can be seen on http://robertmylesmcdonnell.com

TIme series forecasting; data analysis, big data; managerial position. Succeeded in bringing data science into the finance ministry; upskilling and training of staff in data science methods; implementing modern data pulling; reporting automation and statistical forecasting methods.

Data Science (import/tidying of data & analysis); Research (elaboration of case studies and course materials); Design of research projects. Some of my private research may be seen on my website, here: http://robertmyles.github.io/research/

Thesis: "Domestic Interests, Presidentialism, or the Autonomy of Itamaraty: An International Political Economy Analysis of Brazil's Foreign Trade Policy" Modules Studied: Theories of International Relations; International Political Economy; International Human Rights Law; International Public Law; Latin American Studies; The Development of the European Union