Chad Barlow

Chad Barlow

Operations and systems · Madison, Georgia

I build the systems that let small teams run like large ones. Today I run operations for a custom home builder in Madison, Georgia, after starting on the construction crew. Before that I directed communications at Christ Church Nashville, where I built process-automation software that produced ten times the industry-benchmark output at about a tenth of the cost.

MS, Strategic Design and Management, Parsons · Data Science and Analytics, Georgia Tech · BA, Davidson College, Phi Beta Kappa

Live projects

Live earthquake map

JavaScript · Leaflet · D3 · USGS live feed

Every earthquake from the past 30 days, from the live USGS feed. Markers are sized by magnitude and colored by depth, with popups and a legend.

Microbe explorer dashboard

JavaScript · D3 · Plotly · Bootstrap

Pick a test subject and see their most common microbes in a bar chart, a bubble chart and a demographics panel.

Weather vs. latitude

HTML · CSS · Bootstrap · Python charts

A responsive multi-page site showing how latitude shapes temperature, humidity, cloud cover and wind across 500+ cities.

Data and machine learning

Streaming-services dashboard

Team of 4 · lead committer · Flask · MongoDB · JavaScript

Compares the movie catalogs of Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ and Prime Video by genre, year and ratings. I built the sunburst and ratings charts and the visual design.

Credit-risk model

Python · scikit-learn · logistic regression

Predicts high-risk loans. Rebalancing the training data raised high-risk recall from 0.91 to 0.99.

Nonprofit success predictor

Python · TensorFlow · Keras

A neural network that predicts which of 34,000+ nonprofit funding applicants will succeed, tuned toward 75% accuracy.

Crypto market clusters

Python · K-means · PCA

Groups cryptocurrencies by price behavior, before and after reducing the data to two principal components.

Mars news scraper

Python · BeautifulSoup · Splinter · MongoDB · Flask

Scrapes news and data from several sites, stores it in MongoDB and serves it on a web page.

Crowdfunding data pipeline

Python · pandas · regex · PostgreSQL

Extracts and cleans messy campaign data, designs the database schema and loads it into PostgreSQL.

Talks

Designing "anti-lonely" social tools

Keynote · Faith Leads Tech · 2018

We are more connected and more isolated than ever. It doesn't have to be this way: our social tools can be redesigned to bring people together.