Senior Data Scientist · Portland, OR
Mikayla Norton
“Bringing data, technology, and human needs together.”
Senior Data Scientist · Portland, OR
“Bringing data, technology, and human needs together.”
A quiet ledger for yarn, thread, and the projects they become.
A yarn-stash and project ledger that real makers use daily. An installable progressive web app with Firebase auth & sync, OCR receipt capture, and full offline support — designed, built, and shipped solo. Proof the work doesn't stop at the analysis: it goes all the way to something people open every day.
A mix of shipped products and applied ML — most are live, interactive, and yours to try.
Connects to Spotify and turns your listening history into a visual taste profile — then scores how well any artist matches you, 0–100, with the shared genres that explain why.
An ASL-alphabet image classifier — and a study in adversarial robustness, probing how attacks fool the model and how to defend against them.
A research demo that sorts uploaded brain-MRI scans into four tumor types with a convolutional neural network, reporting its confidence for each.
A graduate capstone with Michigan's EGLE — an interactive map and search tool for weighing brownfield sites by their potential for solar-energy redevelopment.
A data web app tracing how per-capita emissions have shifted by region from 1750 to 2021 — built for a graduate data-viz course.
A statistical model that predicts a track's popularity from its audio features — where music meets regression.
Peer-reviewed work — the rigorous end of the same curiosity.
I’ve always been interested in figuring out how things work — and then seeing if I can make them better.
I currently work in healthcare, where I focus on AI, ML, and analytics. When I’m not working, I’m usually still making something. WoolGather is my latest example: a product I took from an idea to a working application, designing and building it end to end.
I’m happiest when I’m learning something new, solving a problem that doesn’t have an obvious answer, or turning a slightly ridiculous idea into something that actually works.
A through-line of leadership and STEM outreach — mostly focused on bringing more women into engineering and computing.
The build instinct doesn't switch off after work. Woolgather started as a way to track my own yarn stash; the little widget beside this started as a weekend question: could I get my current on-repeat song to surface itself automatically?
So I wrote a small bot that pulls my most-played track from the Spotify API on a schedule and updates the site on its own. It's a tiny thing, but it's the kind of tiny thing I can't leave alone.