Hello! My name is Alexander Adams, but I usually go by Alex. I'm a Data Science and Analytics fellow in the U.S. Digital Corps placed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I graduated with my M.S. in Data Science for Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in May 2022, and graduated Summa cum Laude from Florida State University with a B.S. in Political Science and a B.A. in Spanish in May 2020. I've previously interned or worked with the Florida legislature, the Michigan Department of State, the Georgetown University Massive Data Institute, the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation, and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).
My background and experience are centered on data analysis, data science, and social science research, particularly with a focus on public policy, governance, or public opinion. Right now, I'm based in the D.C. metro area. If you'd like to contact me, you can use the form at the bottom of this page to send me an email. Thank you for visiting my site, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Education and Experience
Education
M.S., Data Science for Public Policy, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Graduation: May 2022
B.S. with honors, Political Science, Florida State University
Graduated May 2020, summa cum laude
Senior Thesis: Waking Up From the
American Dream: Examining Attitudes Toward
Economic Mobility Among American Voters
B.A., Spanish, Florida State University
Graduated May 2020, summa cum laude
Experience
Projects
Course Projects
PPOL683 GIS in R
Taken Fall 2021 with Dr. Brian Evans, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Final Project Code: Going Viral: The Impact of County Health Department Social Media
Accounts on COVID-19 Outcomes
PPOL563 Data Visualization for Data Science
Taken Fall 2021 with Professor Taylor Corbett, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Final Project Report: The Twitter Variant: Visualizing the Relationship between County Public
Health Department Social Media Accounts and COVID-19 in the United States
PPOL565 Data Science II: Applied Statistical Learning
Taken Spring 2021 with Dr. NaLette Brodnax, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Final Project Paper: "Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare!":
Analyzing Factors Which Predict Support for
Publicly-Funded Healthcare Among American Adults
PPOL564 Data Science I: Foundations of Data Science
Taken Fall 2020 with Dr. Eric Dunford, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Final Project Paper: "That’s All, Votes!": Factors Influencing Presidential Vote Outcomes at the County Level
in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Personal Projects
2023 30-Day Map Challenge (25/30 Maps Completed) Series of maps using different spatial data sets and techniques, all created in R.
COVID County, USA
R Shiny app which visualizes the cumulative U.S. COVID-19 death rate as compared to the populations
of U.S. counties. Published January 2021.
How Often Do Members of Congress Vote Together?
R Shiny app which calculates how often two members of the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate voted
the same way during a given congress. Current data includes the 79th-117th congresses. Published August 2021.
hhill.R
Single-function R package which implements the Huntington-Hill method of legislative seat allocation, the
method used to allocate seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Published as a package on GitHub in April 2024.
Skills
- English (native)
- Spanish (non-native fluent)
- folium
- numpy
- pandas
- plotnine
- scikit-learn
- twint
- leaflet
- plotly
- raster
- sf
- shiny
- tidyverse (dplyr, ggplot2, rvest, tidyr, etc.)
- tmap
- Google Office (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)
- SQL
- Jupyter Notebooks
- LaTeX
- Markdown
- Qualtrics
- RStudio
- Tableau
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Languages
Python (intermediate)
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