Kara C. Hoover
Biological Anthropologist & Data Scientist

My experience bridges academic research to policy analysis and applied analytics. My domain expertise in anthropology is human biological and genetic variation and adaptation. My scientific research focuses on developmental instability & health disparity, olfactory science ecology & genetics, and climate health & adaptation. My applied projects focus primarily on social policy, international science, research landscape scoping, and forecasting. I specialize in translating complex data and research questions into actionable results through reproducible end-to-end workflows.

Data

Biometrics (Dental · Skeletal) · Genetics · Survey · Open government data · Big data · Unstructured · Semi-structured · Structured

Methods

Data collection · Statistics · NLP · Network analysis · Machine learning · Geospatial analysis · Survey design · Bayesian · Mixed methods · Scientometrics

Skills

Technical leadership · Technical and scientific writing · Project management · Mentorship · Science communication · Public speaking · Proposal writing · Instructional design

Languages

R · Python · Jupyter · SQL · PostgreSQL

Tools

Google BigQuery · Shiny · QGIS · GitHub/Git · Quarto · HPC

AWS

Lambda · EC2 · ECS · S3 · Aurora/RDS · Bedrock · SageMaker · Glue · IAM · KMS