Brenton McMenamin

Greater New York City Area United States

Data Science Fellow

Education

The eight-year-old version of me would be thrilled to learn that I'm following the Peter Venkman career path: I spent time in the basement of the psychology department delivering electric shocks to undergrads, and now I'm moving to the private sector in New York ("where they expect results"​). I love doing scientific research, but unlike many of my colleagues, planning new experiments and proposing new lines of research have never been my favorite part of the job. Instead, I didn't get excited until I was staring at a great big pile o'​ numbers. Many of my colleagues saw the 'analysis'​ stage of research as drudgery, but I saw it as an opportunity to exert my creativity and find new w