Jill Cowan

Jill Cowan

Portfolio Director

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About Me

I am currently a Portfolio Director at an educational testing firm in Durham, NC. Realizing the importance of leveraging data to drive business decisions, I decided to update my current skill set to include programming and data analysis skills via a 6-month intensive program at the University of North Carolina. This experience has provided me with the tools necessary to gather, manipulate and present data in a way that enables data-driven decision making. I'm always looking for opportunities to use and expand my knowledge in this area.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with family and friends, reading and cooking.

Latest Projects

Pymaceuticals

A hypothetical drug trial data analysis project

Pymaceuticals

For this project, we were asked to assume the role of a data analyst from hypothetical pharmaceutical company, Pymaceuticals Inc. Pymaceuticals specializes in drug-based, anti-cancer pharmaceuticals. In their most recent efforts, they've begun screening for potential treatments to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), a commonly occurring form of skin cancer. We've been given access to the complete data from their most recent animal study. In this study, 250 mice were treated through a variety of drug regimes over the course of 45 days. Their physiological responses were then monitored over the course of that time. Our objective was to analyze the data to show how four treatments (Capomulin, Infubinol, Ketapril, and Placebo) compare. The data files were read and manipulated using Pandas and subsequently plotted with Matplotlib. The results are displayed on a webpage using HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.

Belly Button Biodiversity

Belly Button Biodiversity

For this project we were tasked with building an interactive dashboard to explore the Belly Button Biodiversity dataset using JavaScript, Plotly.JS, Python, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Flask. The data was read from CSV files using Pandas. Interactive charts were constructed using Plotly.js. The final Flask application was deployed to Heroku.

UFO Sightings

UFO Sightings

In this project, we used JavaScript and DOM Manipulation to display alien sightings from a very large dataset. Users can search the data using various filtering criteria and page through the results.

Weather Analysis

Weather Analysis Dashboard

For this homework we created a visualization dashboard website using visualizations we've created in a past assignment to analyze how weather varies based on proximity to the equator. We used Python, Pandas, OpenWeather API, JSON, matplotlib, HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to create 7 individual pages and a means by which we can navigate between them.

Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars

This project involved a web application build that scraped various websites for data related to Mars which was then displayed on a single HTML page. Scraping and analysis were completed using Jupyter Notebook, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, and Requests/Splinter. Mongo DB with Flask templating was used to create the HTML page that displays the data scraped from the various websites.