William Medwid

William Medwid

Student

Cal Poly

Biography

I’m a statistics major at Cal Poly, seeking to minor in Data Science. Also interested in board games, and to a lesser extent, video games, from playing to designing and analyzing them.

My favorite coding languages are R and Python, but happy to work in SAS, C#, C++, Java, and Javascript as well.

Interests

  • Board Games
  • Political Theory
  • Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • BS in Statistics, 2023

    Cal Poly

Skills

R

Favorite Language

Statistics

My Major

Python

Other Favorite Language

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research assistant

Cal Poly Stats & Kinesiology Departments

Jun 2021 – Present California
With a Frost research grant, investigating the interactions between mothers and feeding babies using R.
 
 
 
 
 

Grader

Cal Poly Statistics Department

Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 California
Grading R assignments for a STAT 218, a statistics course for biology majors.
 
 
 
 
 

R Package Developer

Cal Poly Statistics Department

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 California
Developing the package Flair under a Cal Poly professor by writing onboarding documents.
 
 
 
 
 

Courtesy Clerk

Safeway

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 California
Store maintainance and customer service.
 
 
 
 
 

Sales Clerk

Center Hardware

Feb 2019 – Sep 2017 California

Responsibilities include:

  • Cashier Service
  • Stocking Shelves
  • Copying Keys

Accomplish­ments

Introduction to Deep Learning in Python

See certificate

Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)

See certificate

Intermediate Python

See certificate

Introduction to Python

See certificate

Projects

Protests and US Foreign Aid

Due to its complex position as the primary world superpower, it’s long been difficult to understand the role the US plays all over the world. Likewise, to know how others feel about the US’s actions would be even more difficult and complex.

Spring Kingdom

A quick strategy board game about re-uniting a broken kingdom. Each weapon will decisively beat one weapon and decisively lose to another.

Mom! At the Museum - Game Jam 2020

A basic browser game, made in 48 hours as I quickly learned and used Javascript and Phaser game engine for the first time. My team made this a great learning experience.

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