Jose Maria Castro
Economics Student | Aspiring Data Scientist & Analyst | ML & Data Analysis Enthusiast with R, MATLAB & Excel Proficiency
0 yrs experience · Coquitlam, BC · <10 hrs/week
About
Data-focused economics student with hands-on experience in ML modeling, data cleaning, feature engineering, and data visualization. Proficient in R, MATLAB, and Excel; experienced with regression analysis, econometric methods, and statistical modeling. Actively applying quantitative skills to real-world datasets across SFU projects like Predicting Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce and Loan Default Prediction, and analyses on crime and mental health indicators. Open to data analytics or data science opportunities that blend economics and quantitative methods.
Skills
Experience
- Predicting Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce · Simon Fraser University09-01-2025 – 12-31-2025
Built multiple machine learning models to predict positive customer reviews using data over 100,000 e-commerce orders; cleaned and prepared data, engineered features related to delivery delays, payments, and product information; evaluated models using accuracy, precision, recall, and AUC.
- Loan Default Prediction Using Machine Learning · Simon Fraser University02-01-2025 – 04-30-2025
Developed machine learning models (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost) to predict loan defaults; processed demographic, financial, and loan-level data; optimized hyperparameters and evaluated model performance.
- Economics Case Competition Finalist · SUMMIT Economics Case Competition11-01-2024 – 11-30-2024
Earned finalist recognition by developing policy solutions to deflation and macroeconomic issues; collaborated with a team to present actionable recommendations to judges.
- Research Project: Crime and Mental Health in Canada · Simon Fraser University09-01-2024 – 12-31-2024
Conducted regression analysis in R to study the relationship between crime severity and mental health indicators; cleaned and visualized public datasets; supported findings with visualizations.
Education
- Simon Fraser UniversityBachelor of Arts, Economics
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