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Grace Charles

How do we get Americans vaccinated against COVID-19?


We designed and fielded nationally-representative surveys to ask Healthcare Workers and the American Public their perceptions, beliefs, and intentions around the COVID-19 vaccine. I used behavioral segmentation to break down the unvaccinated into actionable "personas"
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Role: Lead Analyst
 
Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to survey design
  • Lead analysis of survey data
  • Manage analysis plan and deliverables for team of 4 data scientists
  • Contribute to technical reports
  • Present findings to various stakeholders (local, state, and national government officials; non-profits; community health organizations)
  • Grant-writing

Programs: R, Tableau, Git

Skills: Survey design, predictive models, ML variable selection, behavioral segmentation, causal machine learning
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Healthcare worker
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General population
​report
Press based on our 
​Analysis in NYTimes
Preprint
(Forthcoming!)

What's driving social distancing behavior in the United States?


In response to the COVID pandemic, we designed and fielded nationally-representative survey in March 2020 to ask the American Public about their social distancing behavior, barriers, and beliefs
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​Role: Lead Analyst
 
Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to survey design
  • Lead analysis of survey data
  • Manage analysis plan and deliverables
  • Contribute to technical reports and peer-reviewed publications
  • Manage code repository with multiple contributors in Github

Programs: R, Git

Skills: Survey design, predictive models, ML variable selection, behavioral segmentation, causal machine learning
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Preprint

In their own words: using Twitter to capture the psychological toll of COVID-19 on nurses


In order to get a pulse on how healthcare providers were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, we pulled and analyzed over 600,000 tweets from nurses across America
Role: Lead Analyst
 
Responsibilities:
  • Create and execute analysis plan
  • Download and analyze Twitter data from nurse providers across the United States
  • Co-create interactive Tableau dashboard to explore and synthesize Twitter data 
  • Identify and execute natural language processing techniques
  • ​Contribute to article synthesizing findings
  • Manage code repository with multiple contributors in Github

Programs: R, Twitter API, Tableau dashboard, Git

Skills: Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, interactive dashboards, Twitter analysis
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Medium Article
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