MEMBER
Marco Tavora, PhD

MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank

FOCUS
Data-Driven Consulting, Physics, Science, and Mathematics

WORK
Founder of Principia Technologies

SUMMARY
Marco Tavora worked as a data scientist in several tech companies, including Bornlogic (an AdTech company with partnerships with Facebook and Google), Zoox Smart Data (WiFi networks data company), and Blu (a financial solutions platform).

Marco is an entrepreneur who founded Prior Solutions, a data-driven consulting company with clients in more than ten countries, and Principia Technologies, also a consulting firm with clients including top insurance companies, airlines, and wholesale companies.

Marco’s Programming and Data Skills:
His favorite language is Python including Pandas, NumPy, sci-kit-learn, stats models, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciPy, NLTK, and Keras. He is also experienced in SQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Git. He is proficient in most relevant machine learning algorithms, supervised & unsupervised. These include linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, ensemble methods (random forests, bagging, boosting), SVM, kNN, neural nets (feed-forward and convolutional), clustering (K-Means, DBSCAN), and PCA.

Marco’s Scientific Publications and Published Articles:
- 11 physics papers in today's most renowned peer-reviewed journals (with close to 450 citations)
- 74 articles in online publications such as Towards Data Science, freeCodeCamp, Cantor's Paradise, The Startup, and Data Science Central (with ~3700 Medium followers).

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