Jim is a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, where he researches global capital markets and other international finance topics.
Previously, he was an associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he researched economic development tax incentives. Jim was also formerly a research assistant at the Mercatus Center, a university-based economic research center, where he conducted textual analysis of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations to quantify regulatory burdens by industry and regulatory agency and conducted research on the sharing economy for charts and whitepapers.
Jim is also a part-time data journalist using statistics to cover sports, news, business, and entertainment. He was formerly a regular contributor at Forbes' SportsMoney blog, and his writing has also appeared in FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, Slate, Deadspin, and Bloomberg, among other national media outlets.
Jim is a 2013 graduate of Columbia University and is now based in Washington, DC, where he is currently pursuing his M.S. in mathematics and statistics at Georgetown.
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Previously, he was an associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he researched economic development tax incentives. Jim was also formerly a research assistant at the Mercatus Center, a university-based economic research center, where he conducted textual analysis of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations to quantify regulatory burdens by industry and regulatory agency and conducted research on the sharing economy for charts and whitepapers.
Jim is also a part-time data journalist using statistics to cover sports, news, business, and entertainment. He was formerly a regular contributor at Forbes' SportsMoney blog, and his writing has also appeared in FiveThirtyEight, The Atlantic, Slate, Deadspin, and Bloomberg, among other national media outlets.
Jim is a 2013 graduate of Columbia University and is now based in Washington, DC, where he is currently pursuing his M.S. in mathematics and statistics at Georgetown.
Other info (which you can also find on Jim's LinkedIn page):
- University Graduate Courses: Probability Theory, Deterministic Mathematical Models, Mathematical Statistics, Optimization, Real Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Microeconomic Theory I-II, Econometrics
- MOOCs: The Analytics Edge (MIT edX), Introduction to Information Science (Columbia), Sabermetrics 101 (BU)
- Computer/Programming Skills: Skilled in R, SQL, Python, MS Office, Final Cut, Avid, Photoshop, Google Docs