Kara C. Hoover
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Kara C. Hoover,
Research Strategist & Computational Social Scientist
GitHub · ORCID · Google Scholar

Organizations making high-stakes decisions about research investment, workforce strategy, and policy need analysts who can move between complex data and clear recommendations. I bridge that gap — with subject matter expertise in human variation, olfactory science, and health disparities alongside policy-facing work in science of science and AI evaluation. My specialty is translating complex, multidisciplinary questions into rigorous, reproducible analyses that inform decisions across research, policy, and industry contexts for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Data

Biometrics · Genetics · Survey · Open government data · Big data · Unstructured · Semi-structured · Structured

Methods

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

Skills

Science of Science · Technical leadership · Technical and scientific writing · Program management · 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