I'm Carina from the Philippines 🇵🇭 and currently based in Sydney 🇦🇺

• 👩🏻‍🎓 I hold an undergraduate degree in 📈 Applied Economics from DLSU-Manila 🏹 and a graduate degree in ⚙️ Data Science from Macquarie University 🇦🇺
• 🛠 Software I've used and currently using:
  • STATA for my undergraduate research on Private vs Public Healthcare Preference for Filipinos and Exploratory Data Analysis on Own Loan Service In-App
    • which were both nominated for best papers
  • R and Quarto
    • which I used as the team's visuals coder back when my team won Best in Overall and Best in Visualisation for Macquarie University's ASA Datafest 2022
  • Python
  • SQL
  • LaTeX for research papers
  • Project Libre for IT Project Management
  • Power BI for creating data dashboards
• 🌱 I’m currently learning:
  • UX Design as a refresher and
  • Auslan / ASL on the side 🦻
• 👩🏻‍💻 Pronouns: she/her

As a data scientist, I'm interested in specializing on machine learning models geared towards forecasting, image recognition, and recommender systems.

When I'm not working, - I'm either baking brownies or tending to my houseplants 😋

🫶 Thanks for dropping by!