BESS YANG
Fordham | B.A., New Media & Digital Design
NYU | M.A., Computational Psychology (cognitive science, behavioral science, & neuroscience)
Data Analytics
Data Science
Research
Frontend Dev
Data science to me is a way of radically understanding and transforming the world.
In this section, I want to demonstrate my ability to transform complex data analysis into actionable insights that drive decisions. I’ve highlighted two projects from my experiences: one from the iXperience Data Analytics Bootcamp and the other from my internship at the Labour Research Service. In both projects, I worked with my team to analyze the data, draw meaningful conclusions, and present our insights to stakeholders (instructors, TA, other intern teams, supervisors, etc.) through slideshows. These presentations effectively communicated our findings to non-technical audiences, guiding strategic decisions and fostering a data-driven culture.
We explored a dataset provided by Labour Research Service on the wage outcomes of collective bargaining/union agreements in South Africa.
We investigated whether the predictions of the Compas algorithm were biased.
