I’m William Thyer. I work remotely as a data scientist in Chicago, IL. I earned my PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago in 2023. I’ve spent the last 8 years solving difficult problems with data and machine learning. I like cognitive science, bicycles, remote work, and cities.

Check out my Data Science Portfolio, my Blog, and learn more About Me.

Favorite Posts

• Calm Hands, help reduce nail-biting using computer vision and AI
• Advice for becoming a data scientist as a psychology/neuroscience PhD student
• Visualizing and analyzing bicycle infrastructure using OSMnx

Portfolio Highlights

Calm Hands: Stop Nail Biting with AI

AI app that provides real-time feedback on nail-biting using a fine-tuned deep neural network.

Analyzing Bicycle Infrastructure in Python

Visualization and analysis of bicycle networks in major US cities with OSMnx and Python.

Visualize EEG ML Model Coefficients

Animated visualization of ML model coefficients trained on EEG data.

Other Pages

Full Portfolio | Blog Archive | Resume | Google Scholar | Github