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👋 Hi, I’m @dennis-nichols, Python Developer and Data Scientist

I’m interested in:

• Tackling the challenges of:
  • 🌩️ Climate Change
  • 🦠 Infectious Disease
• By applying:
  • 📊 🤖 Data science and machine learning
  • 💻 Web development
  • 🗺️ GIS technologies
• In the fields of:
  • 💨 ☀️ Clean Energy
  • 💧 Water and Sanitation service provision
  • 🧬 Health Research

I’m currently learning:

• Software engineering topics at Code Fellows:
  • Fundamentals of web development with JS, CSS, and HTML
  • ⚛️The MERN Stack
  • 🐍 Advanced software development with Python (Data science, data visualization, and machine learning)

My professional background:

• ☢️ ⚡ 6 years in the US Navy operating and maintaining nuclear reactors.
• ☣️ 💧 2 years at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working on Global Water and Sanitation Projects.

My academic background:

• 🧠 BS in Neuroscience, Georgia State University
• 🌍 🏥 MPH in Global Health, Certificate in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, Emory University

I’m looking to collaborate on:

• Combined applications of machine learning and GIS technlogies
• Basic browser strategy games

My hobbies include:

• 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 Slowly learning Spanish as I travel and live in Latin American countries including Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.
• 📖 Reading sci-fi and fantasy
• ♟️ Sometimes playing strategy games
• 🟦🟦⬛🟦 Training in Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu when I get the motivation.

📫 How to reach me:

• [email protected]
• linkedIn