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Avery Dawson

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Senior Data Scientist at Electronic Arts · inventory optimisation, time series

Works at
Electronic Arts
Location
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
8+ years experience
Education
Queen's University
Languages
English

Overview

Based in Toronto. I work on demand forecasting at Electronic Arts. Cut forecast error from 28% to 11% across 3402 SKUs. Replaced 74 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Before that: Microsoft and Bell Canada. Most at home with inventory optimisation and Prophet. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about demand forecasting
  • Second opinions on graph analytics decisions
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • SEO and link-building offers

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Skills
graph analyticstime seriesinventory optimisationPythonProphet

Experience

  1. Senior Data Scientist
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Electronic Arts · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Built the forecasting models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
    • Taught SQL to 147 non-analysts.
  2. Data Scientist
    Feb 2021 - Sep 2024
    Microsoft · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Replaced 22 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Data Scientist
    Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
    Bell Canada · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Taught SQL to 174 non-analysts.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from forecasting
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling demand forecasting.

Write-up: demand forecasting in practice
2023

A long-form guide to demand forecasting for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Queen's University
    BCom, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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