Neal Fultz

Neal Fultz

Research Data Scientist / Statistician at UCLA SSC

Neal Fultz is the Research Data Scientist and Statistician at UCLA Social Sciences Computing, and the principal of njnm, a boutique data consultancy for companies ranging from Kaiser Permanente and EDO, to DataKind and the California Lottery. He previously worked for Los Angeles tech companies like System1, ZestAI, and Factual. He is a contributor in the open-source R, Python and Julia ecosystems and a former PyDataLA conference organizer and Google Summer of Code mentor.

Sessions

    AI, ML and Data Science Intermediate

    We gathered ~20 salary surveys of data scientists spanning 2009-2023. The data was collected by different stakeholders with different goals, and forms an excellent case study of ragged time series. Timing irregularities preclude standard or off-the-shelf time series analyses; instead, we modeled them using neural networks and matrix completion. We will discuss the data challenges, our approach and our forecasts for 2024-5.