Pauline Ndung'u
Pauline Ndung'u

Junior Data Scientist

Open to offers · Member since 22 Oct 2026
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Contract, Internship
Experience level
Junior

About

Professional summary

I am a Data Scientist and Mechatronics Engineering graduate with hands-on experience in Python, SQL, predictive modelling, statistical analysis, and data visualisation. I am currently completing my Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.

I build end-to-end data science solutions, from data cleaning and exploratory data analysis to feature engineering, model development, evaluation, and interpretation. My project work includes customer churn prediction, sentiment analysis, property-price modelling, and movie-industry analysis.

I am proficient in machine learning techniques including regression, classification, clustering, tree-based models, neural networks, NLP, and model validation. I use tools such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, and Jupyter Notebook to analyse data and communicate results.

I translate technical findings into actionable business recommendations for non-technical audiences. I value clear documentation, data storytelling, stakeholder communication, teamwork, and ethical, responsible use of data.

I completed the Moringa Data Science Core Program and earned an MIT IDSS certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning. I am committed to continuous learning and motivated to apply my analytical and technical skills in practical data-driven roles.

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Experience

Career history

Data Science Project – SyriaTel Customer Churn Prediction Personal Project

I developed a machine learning solution to predict customer churn using a telecommunications customer dataset. I cleaned and prepared data with Pandas and NumPy, then explored patterns through Matplotlib and Seaborn visualisations.

I implemented and compared Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Gradient Boosting classifiers. I evaluated performance with accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and cross-validation, analysed feature importance, and documented the complete workflow in a Jupyter Notebook.

Data Science Project – Airline Twitter Sentiment Analysis Personal Project

I analysed 14,640 Twitter records relating to airline customer experiences and classified sentiment as positive, neutral, or negative. I applied NLP methods to clean and preprocess text data for machine learning classification.

I built multiclass sentiment classifiers using neural networks and XGBoost, with XGBoost achieving approximately 80% accuracy. I assessed class-level performance using precision, recall, and F1-score, and translated findings into business recommendations concerning customer service, flight delays, and passenger communication.

Data Science Team Project – King County Property Price Analysis Wataalam Analytics

I collaborated in a five-person data science team to analyse 21,597 property records and identify factors influencing house prices for a property developer. The work covered data acquisition, cleaning, exploratory analysis, modelling, and interpretation.

I contributed to a baseline linear regression model and evaluated statistical significance using coefficients, p-values, and adjusted R-squared. I helped interpret the model outputs and turn analytical findings into actionable business recommendations.

Data Science Project – Movie Industry Exploratory Data Analysis Personal Project

I integrated data from multiple movie-industry sources, including box-office, ratings, reviews, and metadata, and queried an IMDb database using SQL. I performed data cleaning, preparation, and exploratory analysis using descriptive statistics, distributions, and correlation analysis.

I engineered features such as movie return on investment to investigate relationships among genre, budget, ratings, runtime, release period, and box-office performance. I delivered recommendations to support movie-production and investment decisions.

Education

Learning history

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)

Bachelor of Science, Mechatronic Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering.

Moringa School

Data Science Core Program, Data Science

Completed training in Python, SQL, data analysis, statistics, machine learning, NLP, time series, deep learning, PySpark, dashboards, cloud computing, MLOps, and large language models.

MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), delivered with Great Learning

Certificate, Data Science and Machine Learning

Completed the Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions programme, earning 8 CEUs. Certificate issued in October 2024.

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