Samuel Gachuhi Ngugi

SAMUEL GACHUHI NGUGI -- DATA SCIENTIST https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-ngugi/ For my projects see: https://github.com/sammigachuhi DATA SCIENTIST SUMMARY • A highly skilled Data Scientist with over 4 years of experience in Python, JavaScript, and Google Earth Engine. Proficient in leveraging data analysis (also geospatial) and programming to provide insights and informative data visualizations. • Expertise in Data Science | Programming | spatial analysis | data visualization WORK EXPERIENCE CONSULTANCY • Created over 10 interactive dashboards using Plotly to highlight population access discrepancies to sanitation at national and global levels GIS ADVISOR AND DATA ANALYSIS May 2023 - June 2023 • Applied machine learning algorithms to extract insights and patterns from a heart disease dataset of over 300 patients. • Acquired, validated, cleaned, and wrangled health and health-related datasets prior to developing dash plotly data visualizations. • Developed county vulnerability maps with detailed administrative unit breakdown. LIFE IN GIS • Enhanced the readership of Life in GIS blogs by 30% through creative GIS programming articles with over 20% containing GEE (JavaScript powered) visualizations. GIS TECHNICAL WRITER June 2022 • Introduced advanced geospatial concepts exemplified through maps and other static visualizations. CLIMATE AND ENERGY ADVISORY • Reduced company costs by 5% by providing in-house environmental research scoping services and data visualizations. GIS AND RESEARCHER January 2021 - November 2022 • Designed 4 technical presentations depicting aesthetic maps and statistical visualizations to educate staff on applications of GIS in society. • Utilized R scripts to data visualizations that effectively communicate findings to project stakeholders resulting in $500 in savings from avoided specialist hiring. • Performed mapping of REDD+ projects in the country, categorized by type. • Created data visualizations showing the types of biogas technologies used by farmers in Central Kenya for a GIZ funded project. CLIMATE AND ENERGY ADVISORY • Designed over 95% of the company's demographic and administrative maps. • Created map visualizations to illustrate distribution of biomass projects in East Africa. GIS SPECIALIST AND CARTOGRAPHER June 2020 - November 2022 • Increased customer traffic by 10% through engaging ecological blogs shared on LinkedIn. CONSULTANCY • Provided GIS software training (Qgis and ERDAS) to undergraduate and graduate students for land cover change analysis. BIST LLC • Performed georeferencing services for over 1000 lakes, achieving a 50% reduction in project turnaround time while maintaining high accuracy. CROPIO • GEOSPATIAL CONSULTANT April 2020 - June 2020 CARTOGRAPHER August 2018 - September 2020 MAP DIGITIZATION October 2019 - October 2019 Extracted farm plots from multiple time-series Landsat and Sentinel satellite images for a machine learning exercise. GEOSPATIAL CONSULTANT June 2019 - June 2019 CONSULTANCY • Significantly reduced research and sub-contracting costs by 80% through proficient use of open-source GIS software (QGIS) and ENVI for area change calculations in Rift Valley lakes spanning 30 years. GIS AND DATA COLLECTION May 2019 - May 2019 EPSILON GENERATION • Boosted map creation efficiency by over 30% through the implementation of custom QGIS templates. • Conducted suitability assessments of various locations in Italy with 80% accuracy. • Consistently delivered over 60% of GIS assignments ahead of deadlines on a weekly basis. KENYA NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS • Conducted data collection for census survey data from 100+ households. ESRI • Utilized ArcGIS suite tools (ArcMap, ArcPro, Survey123, Dashboard) to develop solutions for hypothetical natural hazard and routing problems. ENUMERATOR August 2019 - September 2019 INTERN April 2018 - June 2018 • Created custom data processing tools using ArcGIS Modelbuilder. EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI BACHELORS IN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES January 2014 - December 2019 AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND AUDIT January 2021 - April 2021 EDX - MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SITE PLANNING September 2021 - May 2022 UDEMY GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE FOR REMOTE SENSING AND GIS April 2022 UDEMY MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE BOOTCAMP January 2023 - December 2023 EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING ESRI SK ILLS Python JavaScript (including in Google Earth Engine) R Data Science GIS and Remote Sensing Data science Presentation Data Visualization MACHINE LEARNING IN WEATHER AND CLIMATE April 2023 CERTIFICATES IN CARTOGRAPHY, SPATIAL DATA SCIENCE, LOCATION ADVANTAGE, IMAGE ANALYTICS January 2021 - December 2021 SAMPLE PORTFOLIO • Developed a data visualization app based on Dash Plotly • Created an interactive web app with reactive tables based on R Shiny • Built a web GIS map with background basemap and controls • Published “A Beginner Friendly Introduction to GIS Operations in R: A practical guide” (over 100 reads) • Wrote: Basic Raster and Vector Operations using Qgis (over 1000 reads)