Ellie Albertson, PhD
Senior Data Scientist at CVS Health
Ellie Albertson, PhD, is a Senior Data Scientist with over ten years of experience leading data analytics in health care and social services. She is passionate about bringing a human-centered, social science-based lens to machine learning and advanced statistical analysis. In her work, she has implemented machine learning models to improve health care outcomes and patient engagement, conducted A/B tests, and applied innovative approaches to patient segmentation and cluster analysis. Dr. Albertson holds a PhD in Public Health from UCLA, where she completed interdisciplinary training in statistics, econometrics, and epidemiology. Outside of work, she is a volunteer mentor with the All Tech is Human Responsible Tech Mentorship program, and is a facilitator for the Flatiron School Data Science Bootcamp where she enjoys teaching Python, SQL, and data science to upcoming data professionals.
Talks
Data Con LA 2025
Beyond Correlation: A Practical Guide to Causal Inference in Data Science
Causal inference answers questions beyond correlation, such as whether interventions truly cause outcomes. This session will introduce foundational concepts in causal inference and relevant Python tools. Attendees will leave with an improved intuition for how to use causal inference methods in applied data science.
Data Con LA 2023
Leveraging Neighborhood Socioeconomic Data to Predict Individual Experiences: A Health Care Application
This presentation will provide an overview of publicly available neighborhood deprivation and vulnerability indices, and will illustrate the use of these data in a machine learning model to predict hospital patient socioeconomic experiences. Takeaways will be especially relevant to those interested in social equity and algorithmic bias and fairness.
https://youtu.be/tmQ49UC7n6I?si=cOYwPt_rp4Q597rD