About me

Amelia Taylor

I’m an applied product data scientist who loves helping technical teams make better decisions faster. My work combines metric development, experiment design and analysis, and causal inference with a practical focus on delivering useful solutions. I’m especially drawn to deeply technical problems in areas such as streaming video, biotech, and logistics.

Most recently, I was a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix, partnering with engineers on streaming quality, experimentation, and launch decisions. Previously, I was a Staff Data Scientist at Shopify, where I led the design and analysis of the one-page checkout experiment, and at Zymergen, where I built statistical tools for industrial biotech. Before moving into industry, I was a mathematics professor and department chair. That background continues to shape how I approach difficult problems and communicate complex ideas.

Selected Talks and Contributions

Robots, Biology and Unsupervised Model Selection

PyBay, August 2018

Open Source Contributions

Contributed two merged fixes to Student’s quantile distribution in statsmodels: PR 7327 and PR 7326.

Earlier Projects

Insight Data Science

H2OhNo! A consulting project for Valor Water Analytics

Shelter dog

Predicting Fates of Shelter Animals

Side project for Insight preparation.

Judge

Auditing Signature Judges

Side project for a Colorado county elections office.

Academic Research

Primate phylogenetic tree

Developing a statistically powerful measure for quartet tree inference using phylogenetic identities and Markov invariants

Published in Journal of Mathematical Biology (2017).

Published journal article
Free access copy on arXiv
Simulation and analysis code on GitHub

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