James Wairia

James Wairia

I am a highly practiced Research Officer, with experience in understanding all aspects of Research and Analysis. Prov...
Kenya
English, Swahili

About Me

I am a passionate data analyst currently pursuing a Master of Science in Data Science at KCA University. I am proficient in data analysis using pandas as well as R. I am good at developing Power Bi Dashboards and efficie…

Experience

Research Officer

Kenya Education Management institute
Aug 2014 - Present · 11 years 11 months

Collecting data (receiving research tools-questionnaires)
Questionnaire coding/ preparing SPSS code book.
Preparing Digital Data Collection form either using KoBo Toolbox or Google Forms
Data entry and data cleaning
Analyzing data
Report writing

Attaché

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 · 2 months

Collection, collation, analysis and presentation of data
Coding and tallying of data using data sheets

Research Assistant

Kenya Education Management Institute
Aug 2014

Preparing digital data collection forms using KoBo Toolbox or Google Forms
Collecting data (receiving research tools-questionnaires)
Questionnaire coding / preparing SPSS code book
Data entry and data cleaning
Analyzing data
Report writing
Being involved in several research consultancy services offered to other government and non-governmental organizations
Conducting disability mainstreaming survey for Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB)
Conducting customer satisfaction survey for Kenya National Commission for UNESCO
Conducting Training Needs and Assessment survey on Schools Boards of Management for Education Trust Fund Kenya
Conducting TNA survey to establish gaps in skills on TVET managers and training staff in order to develop a course addressing those gaps
Preparing report on Training Needs Assessment of school Leaders’ Readiness for Implementation of Competency Based Curriculum for Junior Secondary in collaboration with VVOB - Kenya
Regularly carrying out evaluation course analysis on courses offered at KEMI to ensure their usefulness to the trainee
Carrying out facilitator evaluation analysis to ensure that the institute trainers are able to satisfy trainees needs
Liaising with the IT department in data management in the ERP
Developing interactive course content in Learner Management System
Supporting online zoom sessions

Skills

Proposal writing Data entry Data cleaning Data analysis Data visualization Machine learning Report writing Statistics Economics Computing techniques Research Research design Data processing STATA SPSS Python Pandas NumPy Matplotlib Seaborn Scikit-learn Tidyverse Hypothesis testing Power BI Tableau DAX SQL ETL Microsoft Office Excel Problem-solving Attention to detail Team building Leadership Organizational skills
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