About Me
Janice Luong is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of California, Davis, majoring in Applied Statistics with an emphasis in Economics. She is anticipated to graduate in June 2017.
Starting September 2017, Janice will be attending graduate school for her Master of Science in Statistics at the California State University, East Bay. Janice aspires to be a data analyst some day, which is why she believes attending graduate school with help her solidify her statistical knowledge before entering the work field.
Prior to attending UC Davis, Janice attended City College of San Francisco, where she received her certificate in General Education. Janice’s internest in statistics began at CCSF. There, she took her passion for statistics and held several positions, including as a statistics tutor, programming tutor, and as a teacher assistant for two instructors from CCSF’s Computer Science Department. She tutored elementary statistics, introduction to C++ and Python.
After transferring to UC Davis in Fall 2015, Janice assisted Professor Wolfgang Polonik as an undergraduate research assistant, where she was awarded funding from UC Davis’ Statistics Department. Her research focused on multidimensional/high geometry.
During Summer 2016, Janice interned at Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) as a Business Analyst in Sacramento, CA. There, she analyzed data pulled from SAP using Microsoft Excel and created informative plots and charts showing effectiveness of cost projections for Project & Resource Planning Group. For a month, Janice traveled to San Francisco, CA a few days a week, and assisted PG&E’s Asset Management’s analyst with capital forecasting.
Today, Janice is assisting Professor Delmar Larsen with editing Statistics LibreTexts, a principal hub of LibreTexts, which is an open E-book for STEM education, generating over 3 million views per month.
Janice enjoys fitness and is an avid weight lifter. She also takes joy in watching television and spending leisurely time with her family.
Projects
Lehman Baseball: Analyzed Lehman 2015 Baseball database using SQLite in Python.
City & County of San Francisco: A sample of data visualization using JavaScript, HTML and basic CSS.
Internet Movie Base (IMDB): Analyzed IMDB database using SQLite in R.
Stack Overflow: Web scraped Stack Overflow in R and analyzed the data.
USDA: Analyzed data from USDA. Grabbed all files ending in .csv and took only certain rows in each file and combined them into one dataframe. Analyzed the dataframe in Python and supported answers with plots.
Web Scrapped USDA: Web scrapped USDA and combined data from USDA and further analyzed data in Python.
Other Websites
Contact Me
Email: janice@janice-luong.com