Josh Hansen
Adobe Systems
Lehi, Utah
Research Scientist
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Digital Marketing Research and Analysis Team
- Automated Data Cleansing
- Visitor Clustering
- Marketing Attribution Modeling
- Visitor Identification
Developed evaluation framework for internal selection of visitor identification (loginless data aggregation)
Calculation of binary classification metrics on multi-terabyte datasets - Benchmarking (Aggregate Metrics) Analysis
To address concerns about participation in aggregate metrics (like Adobe Digital Index) mathematically determined information revealed by participation in a simplified metric.
Brigham Young University Natural Language Processing Lab
Provo, Utah
Research Assistant
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Teaching Assistant
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Teaching Assistant
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Web
- Django
- HTML/XHTML/HTML5
- CSS
- jQuery
- REST web services
Big Data and Parallel Processing
Experience using existing, writing custom tools for processing data at large scales.
- Hadoop
- Hive
- Map/Reduce
- Kafka/RabbitMQ
- Storm
- Samza
- Docker
Build Systems and Process Automation
- doit
- CMake
- make
Languages
- Java
- C#
- Python
- Ruby
- C++
- And a tiny little bit of R
Natural Language Processing
- Topic modeling (LDA and derivatives)
- Sentiment classification
- Document clustering
- Language modeling
- Spoken language identification
Machine Learning / Bayesian Methods
- Graphical models (factorization of joint distribution, selection of priors, sampled hyperparameters)
- Exact and approximate inference (Gibbs sampling)
- Metropolis-Hastings sampling
- Decision theory in Bayesian networks
Data Mining
- Specializing in text mining
- Domains:
- YouTube
- Citation networks (OAI2 harvesting, indexing)
- Congressional record
- Legislation
- Political discourse
- Student ratings
- Meteorological data
Data Visualization
- Focus on graph-based visualization of structured data.
- Topic cooccurrence
- Named entity networks
- Dynamic wireless mesh networks
- YouTube related videos
- Visualization of geo-tagged data
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah
Master of Science—Computer Science
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Bachelor of Arts—Linguistics
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