Hi, I'm Matt Triano, and I've been very lucky my entire life. I was born a white man in America, to upper middle class parents who provided love, support, and a great education. I have been able to advance very far (intellectually, financially, creatively, etc) because of my good fortune, and I want to live in a world where everyone has the same resources. Great inequality exists in America, much less the entire world, and I want to help bring everyone up to the level I was born into.

My background is in the hard sciences and technologies (undergrad degrees: Physics & Mechanical Engineering; grad degree: Computer Science with a data science/predictive analytics focus), and I want to leverage the fruits of my luck (my education) to develop models and data visualizations that identify the systemic causes of inequality, as well as technological solutions that help address these causes.

I love working on geospatial problems and developing powerful data visualizations (here is an interactive data visualization of World Health Organization mortality data I built in d3.js: https://bit.ly/2MPMNXS ). I'm very familiar with Python and the entire data science stack (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Bokeh, SciPy, Scikit-learn, PySpark) and you can see an example of my machine learning experience here: https://bit.ly/2MQ0rdz . I'm happy to lend my time and experience to work on interesting, significant problems.

I am working on scoping out a project similar to that of mRelief (https://www.mrelief.com/ , which is a free service that helps people find out what food stamp benefits they qualify for), and I plan on submitting that project if it seems fruitful.

Thanks for reading, Matt Triano