Justin Papreck
He/him
Just your neighborhood data scientist/investigative analyst scouring the corners of the internets to help people understand the truths and ramifications behind their shower thoughts.... --- I want to help you optimize your business strategies by using your data to tell the story about your clients’ behaviors and motivations. With over 15 years of experience extracting insights from complex data, I will help you: Quickly Identify Actionable Signals - My analytical expertise helps me identify meaningful trends while filtering out noise and identifying artifacts, rapidly delivering clean, usable data and findings. Enable Data-Driven Decisions - I utilize storytelling and visualizations to empower stakeholders at all levels to extract key insights and make data-driven strategic decisions, especially for those who hate statistics and data. Understand Not Only What, But Why - My decade optimizing user experiences through performance analytics helps me reveal the motivations behind user behavior and suggest changes that can positively shape such to improve KPIs. Realize the Full Potential of Your Data - I ask the questions you may not know to ask, drawing out the deeper insights within datasets that may seem insignificant but may give a new perspective or identify an unforeseen relationship within the data. Predict the Future - I use machine learning for classification and regression for purposes of post hoc analyses and forecasting. Then I explain how and what the models did in a way that can be understood by apathetic teens. If you are looking for someone who really understands data, who doesn’t just eliminate outliers and blindly apply statistics, and who loves telling stories about data, statistics, and trends without actually mentioning data, statistics, or trends, let’s chat.
Ideal Workplace Values
My ideal workplace has a great company culture, at least departmentally that fosters a supportive community that promotes mental health and allows for a little flexibility, ideally hybrid work, where I can interact with my coworkers during in-office activities as well as have the option to work from home, where I can have uninterrupted focus and creative flow.
Location
Chicago, Illinois, US
Open To
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HybridRemoteIn-PersonCareer Interests
DataNeuroexceptional Talents
- I am a scientist, musician, engineer, artist, and programmer simultaneously. I draw from aspects of all these fields, utilizing both my left and right brain when I am approaching a new task. - I am always looking for patterns, anomalies, and the meaning behind such. - I am very good at communicating with, teaching, and mentoring others who are neurodivergent and require explanations in a different way from the typical delivery (in addition to communicating, teaching, and mentoring neurotypical people). - Even when tackling small problems, I am always considering everything as part of a larger system and how each component affects the others, often going about a project with a different perspective than others. - When I conceptualize a personal project, I lay out a framework knowing that as it progresses, I will come up with better ideas throughout execution that will ultimately enhance the project while remaining within the scope of the original plans: expecting it to be as aesthetically attractive as it is technically sound- I have been studying 3 foreign languages and talking to people around the world in different cultures, giving me additional perspectives of people from nearly every time zone, and managing to find times to chat or talk without interfering with work or sleep. - When I seek to learn and understand something, it is not a surface understanding. I am not an information memorizer, I am a deep learner; I want to know everything about the technology I am using and immerse myself into its use until I can teach it
Creative ThinkerDetail-oriented ThinkerStrong Emotional IntelligenceOut of the Box Problem Solver