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Yuriy Davydenko

Research & Data Scientist, Educator

Georgia State University

I am a PhD researcher and social scientist with a set of technical skills and expertise essential at all stages of research project planning and execution, from formulating research questions to collecting data, conducting statistical analyses, interpreting results, and developing reports. I have expertise in quantitative research methods, survey research, policy analytics, performance measurement, and evaluation. As a data analytics enthusiast, I enjoy data programming, visualization, and product development with R, teach courses in statistical data analysis, constantly learns new skills and methods, and always looks forward to new professional challenges.

Interests

  • Research and Data Analytics
  • Survey Research
  • Data Visualization
  • Experimental Research
  • Performance Measurement
  • Program Evaluation
  • Policy Analytics
  • Learning & Educating

Education

  • Ph.D. in Policy Analysis, expected August 2020

    Georgia State University

  • Master of Public Administration, 2010

    Georgia State University

  • Specialist in Management and Economics (equivalent MBA), 2006

    Kyiv National Economic University

  • Specialist of Electronic Engineering, 2000

    Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Skills

Data Analysis

R | Stata | SPSS | Excel | SQL

Research

applied | academic | observational | experimental

Survey Research

qualtrics | instrument design | programming

R

data analysis | advanced programming | markdown

Programming

R | RMarkdown | Blogdown | HTML | CSS | JavaScript

Statistics

descriptive | inferential | predictive

Data Visualization

base R | ggplot | shiny | plotly | leaflet

Data-Driven Desision Making

performance measurement | program evaluation

Documentation & Reporting

Word | PowerPoint | RMarkdown | Blogdown | LaTeX

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant / Research Associate

Georgia State University

Aug 2009 – Aug 2020 Atlanta, GA, USA

  • Conduct fundamental/primary social science research.

  • Provide expert technical assistance for program evaluation projects, including designing and maintaining online evaluation surveys and dynamic online reports at Professional Excellence Program (08/2019 – 08/2020).

  • Teach policy and managament-focused courses at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

  • Public Performance and Management Group (08/2009 – 05/2017): provided expert technical assistance for organization performance improvement and program evaluation projects, including survey instrument design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and reporting.

  • Supported multiple applied research projects in the areas of customer satisfaction and retention, employee workplace engagement and satisfaction, and program effectiveness.

  • Facilitated data collection using online survey management software and an automated optical technology to process survey forms.

 
 
 
 
 

Development Specialist

Ukraine 3000 - International Charitable Foundation

May 2007 – Jul 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine
Conducted nonprofit sector analytics and developed annual reports for 2006-2007. Initiated and managed development projects.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Policy Specialist

Department of Policy at ‘Our Ukraine’ Political Party

Apr 2005 – May 2007 Kyiv, Ukraine
Conducted policy-oriented analytical support.
 
 
 
 
 

Policy Analyst / Project Lead

Institute for Reforms Policy Think Tank

Sep 2000 – Apr 2005 Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Conducted policy analysis and advocacy. Developed policy reports, briefs, and proposals. Managed various policy-focused projects and initiatives.

  • Directed a policy education program on development of a market economy in Ukraine sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

  • Managed a policy change team within the Economic Growth Through Enterprise Development project sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) focusing on enhancing the regulatory environment for small and medium enterprises in four cities of the Kyiv region.

Certifications & Accomplishments

SQL for Data Science

Coursera Jun 2020 – Jul 2020
Learned how to use SQL to retrieve and analyze data.
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Text Mining with Bag-of-Words in R

DataCamp Apr 2020 – May 2020
Learned new techniques for analyzing and visualizing unstructured text data to derive actionable insights.
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Data Science – Ten-Course Specialization from John Hopkins University

Coursera Jul 2019 – Jun 2017
Learned how to use R to clean, analyze, and visualize data, navigate the entire data science pipeline from data acquisition to publication, use GitHub to manage data science projects, perform regression analysis, least squares and inference using regression models.(completed 9 out of 10 courses, including: The Data Scientist’s Toolbox; R Programming; Getting and Cleaning Data; Exploratory Data Analysis; Reproducible Research; Statistical Inference; Regression Models; Practical Machine Learning; Developing Data Products.)
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Statistics with R – Five-Course Specialization from Duke University

Coursera Jun 2017 – Jul 2019
Learned to analyze and visualize data in R and create reproducible data analysis reports, demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the unified nature of statistical inference, perform frequentist and Bayesian statistical inference and modeling to understand natural phenomena and make data-based decisions, communicate statistical results correctly, effectively, and in context without relying on statistical jargon, critique data-based claims and evaluated data-based decisions, and wrangle and visualize data with R packages for data analysis. Produced a portfolio of data analysis projects from the Specialization that demonstrates mastery of statistical data analysis from exploratory analysis to inference to modeling, suitable for applying for statistical analysis or data scientist positions.
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Mastering Software Development with R - Five-Course Specialization from John Hopkins University

Coursera Jun 2017 – Mar 2019
Rigorous training in the R language, including the skills for handling complex data, building R packages, and developing custom data visualizations. Learned modern software development practices to build tools that are highly reusable, modular, and suitable for use in a team-based environment or a community of developers.
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Teaching

“Professor was truly dedicated and determined to help students learn course material. Always willing to provide guidance and extra help.”

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Policy Data Analysis

This course is about the methods of reasoning and learning from data. It is an introduction to the art and science of extracting insights from data using graphs, numerical summaries, and data models.

Intro to Policy Analysis

This is an introductory course covering basic concepts and principles of policy analysis.

Governmental Budgeting

The course examines political, technical, and managerial aspects of resource allocation in American public sector.

Contact

  • Atlanta, GA 30076