My name is Elias Tavarez. I was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, but have spent the majority of my life in the states. I am a Data Scientist working for BASF in their Production Artificical Intelligence team.

I am also currently pursuing my Masters in Information and Data Science (MIDS) from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to my role as a data scientist I was a chemical engineer post-graduation from the University of Michigan.

Outside of work, I enjoy:

• ⚽️ Sports | Specially ~futbol~ (I am a big Liverpool fan) but love all sports and doing anything that keeps me moving
• 📚 Reading | Which unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I'd like because of school, but I try to keep up
• 🎥 Movies | I thoroughly enjoy a good film and specially love watching them with my sister

Most of the coding I do is in Python and all of it's related libraries. However, I have had experience with and can get around with other languages/technologies such as R, HTML&CSS, and C++ but again, my strength lies with Python. As you can imagine by virtue of being a data scientist, I am experienced in:

• Developing and Deploying Machine Learning Models
• Data Wrangling
• Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
• Data Visualization
• Deep Learning