
Yao Yu
Harvard College '23 studying Government + Data Science.
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/84823
- Course Assistant for Gov 52: Models
- Hosted weekly office hours, wrote and graded weekly problem sets and exams, responded to student questions on Slack
- Formerly managed a team of 12 undergraduate course assistants for Gov 50: Data who ran the course’s study halls, Slack communication, grading, and attended class to aid students
- Formerly contributed to ~150k lines of changes in the Gov 50: Data online textbook (~50k additions and ~100k deletions)
- Publisher
- Elected to serve as Publisher, managing a team of 20+ in the journal’s business, design, multimedia, technology operations, and worked closely with the president, managing editors, senior editors, and authors
- Designed the journal’s new WordPress website and optimized advertisement placement to increase revenue by 50%
- Launched the data journalism section and led the journal’s 2020 presidential election forecast
https://whatworkscities.bloomberg.org
- Data Consultant
- Managed a Salesforce database and imported applications data weekly
- Conducted ad hoc reporting and analysis for other teams in the organization
- Analyzed data for research and reporting for internal and external projects