Hi, I'm Kirk McGraw

Data Scientist | Civil Engineering | Computer Vision

I'm a Data Scientist in the civil engineering field. I've worked on computer vision pipelines and love exploring datasets in my spare time. This page showcases a few of the more interesting personal and academic analyses I've done. Thanks for taking a look!

Projects

Bird Strikes and You

A logistic regression analysis in R to determine what factors influence birdstrikes. Mass of the animal and season were most predictive of higher repair costs, and ways to avoid expensive bills were recommended to airlines.

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PPE Object Detection

Comparative investigation of R-CNN vs. Transformer object detection models on personal protective equipment data. Models can monitor PPE non-compliance in industry, preventing fines and liability.

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Data Engineering Lakehouse

Complete end-to-end ML data pipeline incorporating bronze, silver, and gold lakehouse schema with PySpark. The resulting architecture feeds both BI and ML business needs efficiently.

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Get In Touch

If you'd like to reach out, here's a few ways to contact me.

kim449@g.harvard.edu https://github.com/Vistakirk