Monica Guimaraes

Monica Guimaraes has more than fifteen years of experience organizing and teaching undergraduate courses in automata theory, numerical analysis, programming languages, and statistics. Her passion for artificial intelligence goes back to her college years, having done her thesis in automatic-theorem-proving and working later as an AI researcher. She also has extensive experience in software development in corporations.

projects by Monica Guimaraes

Regression for Life Expectancy Analysis

4 weeks · 8-10 hours per week average · INTERMEDIATE

In this liveProject series, you’ll take on the role of a data analyst working for the Jones Family Philanthropic Foundation. The board of directors is interested in learning about the life expectancy of Americans so that they can better target their charitable spending.



Your challenges in this series of liveProjects include running a regression analysis on demographic data to find factors related to life expectancy, and answering data-mining questions about the distribution of these demographic variables. To do this, you’ll clean and model your data, assess the accuracy of your findings, and present your results—all with open-source tools from the Python ecosystem.