Dr. Lisa Park

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Assistant Professor · Coding & Data

Dr. Park specializes in applied machine learning for urban analytics, including predictive models for housing prices, crime mapping, and transportation flow. She bridges the gap between computer science and social science methodologies.

CS-102 CS-401 DB-401 GIS-301

Contact & office

✉ lpark@urbanicity.space

🏢 Online — office hours by video

Office hours: Wed 1:00 PM-3:00 PM · Malone Hall 310 | Fri 2:00 PM-4:00 PM · Virtual (Zoom)

College

Ph.D. Data Science — Stanford University (2019)

M.S. Statistics — UC Berkeley (2015)

B.S. Computer Science — Carnegie Mellon University (2013)

Family

Grew up on a sailboat until age nine.

🐾 A corgi named Sigma

Teaching now — GIS-301

Last #8 · Lesson 8: Final Project: Urban Spatial Analysis ↗

Current #1 · Lesson 1: Urban Spatial Data Sources ↗

Next #2 · Lesson 2: Geocoding and Address Matching ↗

Recommends

Our World in Data ↗

Reading list

Storytelling with Data ↗

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic · from the syllabus

The Signal and the Noise ↗

Nate Silver · from the syllabus

Braiding Sweetgrass ↗

Robin Wall Kimmerer · non-fiction

Field

Machine learning for urban analytics, spatial statistics, predictive modeling, data visualization, open data ecosystems