My name is pronounced Ho-vawn-es, but most just call me Hov (yes, like Jay-Z). In my past life I worked in politics, at the federal as well as state levels. In my reincarnated past life, I was an aspiring academic. Now, I’m a freelance data scientist! Regardless of how many lives I have left, I will always love helping others, analyzing data, and having fun.

Specialties: Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (e.g. Word2Vec).

Some of my favorite Python libraries and tools: PanDas, NumPy, SciKit-Learn, SciPy, StatsModels Some of my favorite tools for Data Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly