About me
Michael Herron currently teaches Programming Methods for Data Science. He is also a principal data scientist at Premier healthcare alliance, which is a hospital performance improvement company with one of the largest databases of clinical and operations data covering about half of all U.S. hospitals.
Michael is part of a team of data scientists who develop models that predict patient outcomes, forecast patient volume by hospital department, clinical trial analytics, clinical decision support, estimate demand for medical supplies, and whatever else can help hospitals improve outcomes and reduce costs.
He has worked in Python for 10 years, in addition to R. He previously worked in financial and software services (at Wells Fargo and Red Hat).
Michael is passionate about data and data-analytic thinking and sharing his experience with aspiring data scientists