Elizabeth Edwards-Appell

For my “Labs” final project as a student in Lambda School’s data science program, I joined up with a working team and contributed to the real-world code base for a start-up called Story Squad. [Read More]

For my second independent project, I chose to create a model predicting the lab of origin for engineered DNA, using a dataset provided by DrivenData.org as part of a model-creating contest. I chose this dataset partly because I wanted to challenge myself - simply wrangling the dataset into a usable... [Read More]

The effective altruism community is a group of nerds, but instead of nerding out about train engines, Star Wars, or 18th-century swordfighting, they nerd out about one question: Given limited resources and all of humanity’s accumulated knowledge about the social and physical sciences, what is the most cost-effective way to... [Read More]