Anja Wu, B.Math Honours, B. Ed.

Ottawa Collisions | (R, Jupyter Notebook)

• Found several dangerous intersections across Ottawa both in number of crashes and severity of injuries
• Achieved ~85% accuracy in predicting accidents resulting in injury

Exploring Ottawa Parks | (Jupyter Notebook, Tableau)

• Decreased amount of time required for people to find parks in Ottawa tailored to them using Tableau Story
• Led group project; setting goals and assigning various roles to group members
• Ensured completion and high quality of final product ahead of schedule

Red Light Camera Violations | (Python, Jupyter Notebook)

• Communicated actionable insights using ROI to propose saving the city a minimum of $85,000 per year

Clipping Coupons with Costco | (Python, Jupyter Notebook)

• Scraped, cleaned, and combined two different data sources (Costco and Real-Canadian Superstore)
• Analyzed price comparisons to quantify why Costco is cheaper (82% they price beat, by $18.53 on average)

Ontario School Board Progress/Achievement | (BigQuery - SQL, Looker Studio)

• Created dashboard to quickly and visually quantify/compare performance of Ontario schoolboards (French Catholic significantly outperform English Public on all metrics)

Building My Website | (HTML/CSS, Google Analytics, Looker Studio)

• Created my website to communicate my data/coding learning journey with over 260 new visitors YTD
• Created dashboard for a high-level view of my website traffic saving ~5 min/view

Yammer Case Study | (SQL, Mode)

• Analyzed and visualized a drop-in user engagement, improvements for search, and checked A/B test validity

HR Attrition Case Study | (Python, Jupyter Notebook)

• Performed data cleaning and handled imbalanced data to have accurate interpretable results
• Used statistical and machine learning methods to analyze significant factors and predict attrition

Web Scraping Job Searches, Web Scraping Top 50 IMDb Movies, Hangman | (Python)

M.Sc. : Data Science, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence | 2025 (expected)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
12.0/12.0 CGPA

• Utilized statistical theory and R script to minimize iteration of running MCMC on a large dataset to reduce the amount of computational power

B. Education : Intermediate/Senior Division - Mathematics, Science (Biology) | 2015
Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario

B. Mathematics, Honours : Minors – Biology and Psychology | 2014
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
10.1/12.0 CGPA

Data Science Intern | May 2024 – Current
National Security and Defense (Government of Canada)

• Created networks to visualize and analyze connections between entities using NetworkX and igraph/Graphviz
• Independently led statistical analysis, collaborated with other data scientists and qualitative researchers, on data science projects using SQL and Python, to find new insights and streamline workflows
• Drove strategic planning direction of projects for stakeholder teams through exploratory analysis
• Collaborated with stakeholders to align and deliver data in easily digestible manners with key takeaways through reports and presentations
• Evaluated third party API partnership; collaborated with their developer team on improvements to their platform and communicated findings to my leadership team to inform the procurement decision

Science and Mathematics High School Teacher | Oct 2015 – Sept 2023
Ottawa Carleton District School Board, Ontario and Stratford Hall, British Columbia

• Communicated concepts clearly and efficiently to various levels of math and science literacy
• Taught students financial analysis and calculations, such as mortgage, budgeting, etc
• Taught IB students statistical concepts such as experiment design, survey design, probability distributions, variance, bivariate analysis (correlation coefficient, linear regression)
• Worked with guidance counselor to develop and run student self-awareness seminars to improve classmate dynamics
• Improved operations for attendance point tracking for all teachers using GSheets (previously handwritten)

Mathematics and Statistics Tutor | Sep 2010 – Current
Self-employed - Ottawa and British Columbia

• Communicated clearly and efficiently concepts to various levels of math and statistics literacy
• Tutored math and stats courses from high school up to and including second year undergraduate level
• Tailored tutoring to each students' needs and interests to make learning more fun and easier to comprehend

Server | Sep 2015 – Jan 2017
The Keg, Ottawa, Ontario and Coquitlam, British Columbia

• Interfaced with customers and ensured their complete satisfaction in their steak tasting experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant | May – Aug 2014
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

• Researched previously written material on Factoring Cyclotomic Polynomials (Cryptography)
• Searched for patterns among various cyclic polynomials both manually and using R

Teaching Assistant for School of Mathematics | May 2013 - Apr 2014
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

• Broke down complex mathematic and statistic concepts for business, science, and engineering students into understandable pieces for better learning
• Leading supplementary math sessions and answering questions

Camp Counsellor for Underprivileged Youth | Jun 2013 – Aug 2014
Children’s Village, Ottawa, Ontario

• Planned day-to-day activities with underprivileged children and children at-risk
• Provided opportunities for children to research information and to learn the value of money
• Organized fundraisers to raise money for the children

Tutor for Paul Menton Centre | January 2013 – June 2014
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

• Differentiated instructions to students with disabilities to accommodate different learning styles and abilities
• Subjects included math and biology for various levels of university level classes

Lifeguard and Swimming Instructor | March 2009 – June 2015
City of Ottawa, Ontario

• Communicated and demonstrated to various levels of swimmers sequential steps in learning how to swim
• Interfaced with customers to create a pleasant and safe swim environment

SSC Conference Volunteer Lead | 2023
Carleton University, Ontario

• Stream-lined process of getting 600+ registrants setup for the conference attendance
• Ensured all rooms were monitored and had volunteers to help speakers with set-up and any issues that may arise
• Deescalated conflict over double bookings and created solutions on the fly
• Dealt with ad-hoc issues arising from volunteers, technical, and conference attendees

Coaching Basketball | Oct 2015 – Jun 2017
Independent Schools Association of British Columbia: Stratford Hall

• Motivated students into working hard to achieve their best work and get medals

Biidaaban Community Service Learning | 2014-2015
Widdifield Secondary School, North Bay, Ontario

• Worked 1:1 with several at-risk students of Aboriginal descent on writing, mathematics, and science

CUMC Organizer | June 2014
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

• Collaborated to organize the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Carleton University