I'm Noëlle Midnight (e/er), a neuroqueer data nerd in Seattle, WA.
I'm a contract data associate at Allovue and a self-taught analyst who's working on finding full time employment in the field following a career switch that's pulled me out of insurance and into coding. I adore working with R and SQL, as they just work with the straightforward logic that my brain tends to find pleasing. Currently, I'm working my way through some O'Reilly books on utilizing R for Data Science and am already queueing up additional work to help me understand how to best utilize my (admittedly rusty) statistics skills. Once I'm confident that I've pushed these a point where I'm happy, I'm hoping to really sit down with Python and start looking at that side of OOP.
To the end of continual education, I've enrolled in college starting this spring, which I intend to do alongside full time employment. My goal is to eventually attend the University of Washington pursuing a bachelor's in computer science, following their data science track. I'm enrolled at Lake Washington Institute of Technology and will be starting a direct transfer program that will pull me into UW's CS department. After graduation, I hope to eventually find my way into healthcare, working to improve the availability and breadth of transgender healthcare data so that future generations don't have to do the same amount of medical guesswork as I have had to do.
On a personal side of things, I'm a photographer and I have a new music newsletter where I write about the new releases that I find most interesting each week, compiling them into an ~4 hour playlist. I also knit and enjoy movies in my free time.