W. Abram Astle

Education 🎓

Degree Institution Graduation Date GPA
Ph.D. Data Science and Engineering University of Tennessee TBD TBD
B.S. Data Science Brigham Young University - Idaho April 2025 4.0
A.S. General Studies University of Idaho December 2020 4.0
A.A. Liberal Arts College of Southern Idaho May 2019 4.0

Work Experience 🔨

Position Company / Organization Dates Most Notable Accomplishment Technology Used
VP of Projects, Project Manager, Team Member BYU-Idaho Data Science Society April 2023 - Current Collaborated on the development of a web app that resulted in a budget increase from 18,000 to 240,000 dollars for the City of Rexburg Fire Department Python, R, SQL, Streamlit, Shiny
Data Science Team Project Manager, Team Member Aspire365 April 2024 - December 2024 Lead a technical team in the creation of an in-house data analytics web application for Aspire365, a hybrid remote, in-person mental health company Shiny, R, Javascript
Data Science Lab Tutor BYU-Idaho September 2023 - Current Have assisted dozens of students in solving data science problems Python, R
Metadata Intern NASA September 2023 - December 2023 Developed an automated system using natural language processing that analyzed and extracted hundreds of thousands of named entities from academic journal abstracts in minutes compared to 2-3 months of manual work Python, Multiple Deep Learning Models, Javascript
Language Data Annotator Research and Business Development Center April 2023 - June 2023 Processed hundreds of thousands of entries of private shipping data using a taxonomical system and multiple computational scripts Python, Bash
Undergraduate Research Assistant University of Idaho May 2020 - August 2020 Wrote Python code that contributed to a faster method of processing X-ray images for machine learning purposes Python, Fortran

Personal and Team Projects 👤

Title Description Technology Used Status URL
mindDump A minimalist Android journal app that promotes the therapeutic writing technique of brain dumps. Flutter, Dart Maintained GitHub
mindFill An interactive analytics app that processes fine-grained emotion data from text entries. R Shiny Maintained GitHub
general-conference-extractor A python package that allows you to extract all the speeches given for the general conferences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from April 1971 to the most recent month and year. Python Maintained GitHub
Semantic Data Dictionaries App A web app that allows you to upload data dictionaries and see if there are columns that are possibly related based on meaning among them. Python Shiny Under Development GitHub
BHSA Query Generator A web app that allows a user to generate text-fabric queries to search the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Amstelodamensis), otherwise known as the BHSA. Python Shiny Under Development GitHub