Hello! My name is Richelle Parra

Welcome to my data science portfolio & online resume site. Scroll down to find some of my sample data projects. I have practical experience with data science tools, like Python and SQL, machine learning models, and data visualization. In my leisure time, I enjoy Lo-Fi music & running.

Latest Posts

Artificial Intelligence Transparency - Building Trust into AI

While learning technical details of AI Model deployment and researching transparency best practices, the sheer volume of available published research is overwhelming. To distill and ...

Machine Learning Predictions for Cancer Diagnosis

The WiDS Datathon 2024 focused on predicting whether a patient’s diagnosis period is less than 90 days using a real world dataset comprising approximately 39,000 patient records. Thi...

Time Series Forecasting using XGBoost

The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon 2023, organized by the WiDS Worldwide team at Stanford University, and Harvard University IACS focused on longer-term weather forecasting to...

Visualizing Data with Tableau - Education Loan Debt

I. Data Exploration As a response to the long-term economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government announced its first-ever, wide-ranging student debt relief plan. Fo...

Forecasting Home Values of the Top 5 Highest Population U.S. Cities

In this project, I predict 2022 Home Values using Simple Moving Average and then create a model, train and test it, to run a Random Forest Regression prediction of 2022 Home Values ...