CFornesa

Data Scientist and Storyteller

MA in Political Psychology candidate.

Tel: +1‪ (281) 400-1920

Email: cfornesa [at] outlook.com

Chris Fornesa

Data Scientist with an emphasis in Political Psychology (ASU '26) leveraging data science expertise and enterprise data experience. Bridging technical rigor with social theory to design fairer behavioral models.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Computational: Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn), R, SQL, Azure, Power BI.

  • Research: Quantitative Research Design, Algorithmic Auditing, A/B Testing, Behavioral Data Analysis.

EDUCATION

MA in Political Psychology, Arizona State University | Incoming January 2026

MS in Data Science, Boston University | December 2025

BA in Liberal Studies, University of Houston | June 2018

  • GPA 4.0 (Summa Cum Laude)

AA in Liberal Arts, Houston City College | May 2016

  • GPA: 3.949 (Highest Honors)

EXPERIENCE

Chevron — Houston, TX.

  • Mobile Data SME | May 2024 – July 2025

    • Directed governance for enterprise mobility data, optimizing IT architecture for scalable analysis.

      Engineered data solutions to translate complex technical telemetry into actionable insights for leadership across functions.

  • IT Analyst | December 2020 – April 2024

    • Managed enterprise-level mobility support workflows, bridging the gap between technical teams and enterprise end-users.

    • Partnered with cross-functional leadership to align data systems with organizational goals.

  • Network BI Analyst | March 2020 – December 2020

    • Designed and deployed Power BI dashboards to visualize network performance gaps, enabling faster executive decision-making.

CERTIFICATES
  • Google Business Intelligence Certificate, Coursera (2025)

  • Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate, Coursera (2025)

  • Google Data Analytics Certificate, Coursera (2024)

Political Data Projects

Explore a sample of Power BI dashboards that I created with political foci in mind.

Using data from Mapping Police Violence, individual names of Americans who have been murdered in police custody (or the attempt to place them in police custody) since 2013. As of December 2025, this shows that the range of those murdered ranges in ages between 0 (a Black infant who was with their father) to 107 years of age (an elderly Black man who was experiencing a mental health episode).

Mapping Police Violence estimates that Pacific Islander and Black Americans are among the most likely to experience police violence, followed by Native Americans/Alaska Natives and those of any race of Hispanic/Latino cultural origins.

And, while the majority of interactions involved no reported mental illness or drug use, around 20% did. At the same time, police departments have reportedly purposely misreported suspects as having an "unknown race", while mental illness status is not always clear at the time of interaction with a suspect, potentially skewing this data through underreporting.

Police Murders in the US Since 2013

I collected this data from the Tech for Palestine initiative, which provides ongoing time-series data on official death counts and other statistical measures in Palestine.

Since the ceasefire in early October 2025, the official death toll in Gaza (which only accounts for direct, observed deaths counted by the Palestinian Authority) has plateaued, but not before well over 160,000 direct Palestinian injuries and well over 67,000 direct Palestinian deaths at the hands of the IDF, with both counts continuing to grow.

The first dashboard outlines the cumulative impacts of the Gaza War (the iteration of genocide beginning on October 7, 2023, until the present), while the second dashboard shows the number of Palestinians killed or injured in Gaza, as well as the number of buildings destroyed or damaged in Gaza.

As of December 2025, over 70,000 direct Palestinian deaths have been reported (despite the ceasefire), while it appears that the consumer price indices for goods, overall, had been decreasing in the months before the ceasefire became official.

Academic Data Projects

Explore a sample of Jupyter notebooks that I compiled with an academic focus.

The Zillow dataset provided housing prices based on features such as the year a home was built and its square footage, which were used to predict each home's tax-assessed value. This exercise gave my group the skills to practice machine learning techniques, such as linear regression, random forest regression, and gradient boosting, using features of each home and its tax-assessed value as training data to predict the tax-assessed values of new homes, with specific columns. We found that gradient boosting regression performed slightly better than linear and ridge regression (as evidenced by the model's lowest root mean squared error).

Breast Cancer Wisconsin Dataset

Body Fat Dataset

Technical & Creative Projects

Explore each website showcases dedicated to my creative, data insight, and web development projects.

Innovative websites crafted for diverse online experiences.

A portfolio of projects reflecting my journey towards becoming a data scientist.

A collection of files for projects reflecting my journey towards becoming a data scientist.

A collection of my web design abilities which also showcase my creative work.

Web Design and Development