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

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

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