Tinashe Michael Tapera

Student, Data scientist, and Musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tinashe Michael Tapera

Student, Data scientist, and Musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Hey there, and thanks for visiting my bio!

I'm an accelerated BSc/MSc psychology student at Drexel University, interested in the areas of data mining, machine learning, statistical modelling, and how to apply these quantitative techniques to research in the domain of psychology. In other words, I use the skills I develop in data science to study human behaviour and health. I'm originally from Zimbabwe, where my name means "We are with God".

I recently completed a summer internship with Salesforce, an awesome no-more-software company in the heart of San Francisco, where I worked on Natural Language Processing and data mining models for improving employee success and experience.

I have an insatiable passion for music: I write, compose, produce, perform, browse, indulge in, and discover new music in my free time, and I love to collaborate with other talented musicians. My tastes and styles have been to the ends of multiple spectrums — I even spent a few years playing percussion in a Scottish Pipe Band (although I'm primarily a guitarist)!

My other hobbies include learning about anything I find interesting through TED talks and MOOCs, writing about my life and experiences on Quora, writing informative articles, and doing pretty much anything else music related.

Feel free to check out my Github page for code samples, my Quora blog for my writings on the intersection of psychology and data science, or my Soundcloud for a taste of my musical production and style. Cheers!

  • Education
    • Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences