David Olsen

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

Research System Engineer at the University of Minnesota

Education

I am a full stack (a.k.a. holistic or horizontal) data scientist and IT professional—two descriptors that are unwieldy and nebulous. What I really do is create and maintain various systems and protocols needed to acquire data from disparate sources; extract and transform that data; conduct analyses and develop inferential tools; and in conjunction with my colleagues, share our findings through visualization and the written word. My role—a dual of scientist and engineer—is to be the person who relentlessly pursues a problem until a reasonable solution is found. In my day-to-day, I solve these types of problems by marshaling a broad base of technical expertise over infrastructure and data...