I am Max Wood

Data Professional

About Me

I help companies make impactful decisions with their data through data analysis and predictive machine learning.

When I'm not swimming in classes and components, you can find me on the BJJ mats or playing with my kids.


Projects

Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash

Paper Grader

Robo-grader for English papers, designed to enhance teacher productivity.

Photo by Lloyd Dirks on Unsplash

Sports Player Performance Predictor

Machine learning model that predicts DraftKings players' performances.

Stock photo of a guy on a skateboard

Stock Momentum Trader

Algorithm Trader, based on a Gap Up, Momentum Trading Strategy

Work

Open Source Contributor

There's probably a noticeable theme on this portfolio: Data! I like to contribute to projects that help with data acquisition.

Notable Contributions:

  • breads.io - A Twitter-esque community for comparing articles that you read online, with friends!
    • Using Python 3:
    • Rewrote initial scraper, improving success rate from 0% in some cases to almost 90% (57 correct scrapes out of a possible 64).
    • Created a headless browser that simulates user behavior to scrape the rest of the data that fails in the initial scrape.
  • Scrapy - a Python Library for scraping data from websites.
  • More contributions, coming soon!

Education

2017-Present

Professional Development

Zero to Mastery by Andre Neagoie

2022

Data Science Certification

Springboard

2008-2012

BS, Exercise Science

University of Oklahoma

Language

English Fluent

Spanish Beginner

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