Online Sales and Small Business Organization

Working as a data scientist, this freelance project provided me an opportunity to address online sales and organization for a small business. I developed an inventory management system and streamlined the sales/order fulfillment process. Additionally, I set up tools to track key metrics and deliver reports with actionable recommendations for boosting online sales and reducing cost. This work has resulted in more timely order deliveries and record-keeping. This small business owner has extensive experience operating brick-and-mortar stores, so it has been a pleasure to help her transition to more accessible online organization and documentation.

Book Sales Analysis

For this analysis project, I took the perspective of a consultant working with a potential bookstore owner. The hypothetical client was interested in opening a new bookstore, but before finalizing her plans, wanted to better understand what types of books she should stock her store with. Understanding that it was not feasible to stock every book ever published in her store, I analyzed a publicly available dataset of book sales to provide recommendations for the types of books that would sell best in her new store.

Uses Python and Jupyter Notebook with this dataset from Kaggle.

Check out the full project here: Book Sales Analysis

Math 24 Challenge

Uses R and R Markdown.

Check out the full project here: Math 24 Challenge

Koch, G.E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2024). Context Reinstatement Requires a Schema Relevant Virtual Environment to Benefit Object Recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [Full publication]

Koch, G.E., Libertus, M.E., Fiez, J.A., & Coutanche, M.N. (2023). Representations within the intraparietal sulcus distinguish numerical tasks and formats. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35(2), 226-240. [Full publication]

Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2020). Image memorability is predicted by discriminability and similarity in different stages of a convolutional neural network. Learning & Memory, 27(12), 503-509. [Full publication]

Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., & Paulus, J.P. (2020). Influences on memory for naturalistic visual episodes: Sleep, familiarity, and traits differentially affect forms of recall. Learning & Memory, 27(7), 284-291. [Full publication]

Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (2020). Neural patterns are more similar across individuals during successful memory encoding than during failed memory encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 30(7), 3872-3883. [Full publication]

Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019). Semantic knowledge influences whether novel episodic associations are represented symmetrically or asymmetrically. Memory & Cognition, 47(8), 1567-1581. [Full publication]

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2018). Creatures great and small: Real-world size of animals predicts visual cortex representations beyond taxonomic category. NeuroImage, 183, 627-634. [Full publication]

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2017). Variation across individuals and items determine learning outcomes from fast mapping. Neuropsychologia, 106, 187-193. [Full publication]

Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2023, November). Using virtual reality to unpack how context reinstatement aids memory. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2023, July). Unpacking how context reinstatement aids memory using virtual reality. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia.

Koch, G.E., Durisko, C., Liu, R., Libertus, M. E., Fiez, J. A., & Coutanche, M.N. (2020, June). Neural representations of number across semantic, phonological, visual, and manual formats. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.

Koch, G.E., Akpan, E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2020, May). Image memorability is predicted by activity across stages of convolutional neural networks and the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Colvin, M., Koch, G.E., Dresang, H., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., & Coutanche, M.N. (2020, March). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy prediction. Poster presented at the Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA.

Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, November). A novel method that integrates open MRI resources to track the gray matter footprints of cognitive functions. Poster presented at the CMU Open Science Symposium 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.

Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, October). Distributed gray matter footprints predict cognitive abilities: Successful prediction of memory recall in older adults. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Computational Medicine Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Koch, G.E., Liu, R., Libertus, M.E., Fiez, J., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, October). Neural representations of number across semantic, phonological, visual, and manual formats. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Akpan, E., Koch, G.E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, October). Tracking gray matter footprints of neurally distributed cognitive functions. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Popov, V., Zhang, Q., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, July). The effect of semantic relatedness on associative asymmetry in memory. Oral presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.

Liu, R., Koch, G.E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., & Libertus, M. (2019, June). Representing numerical information across different formats in the adult brain. Poster presented at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

Colvin, M., Dresang, H., Koch, G.E., Warren, T., Dickey, M.W., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, June). fMRI evidence for the existence and function of animacy predictions. Talk at Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., & Paulus, J.P. (2019, May). Using neural representations during encoding to predict subsequent retrieval of dynamic events. Poster presented at the Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Coutanche, M.N., Koch, G.E., & Paulus, J.P. (2019, May). A common neural signature for encoding success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Concepts, Actions, and Objects Symposium, Rovereto, Italy.

Libertus, M. E., Coutanche, M.N., Fiez, J., Koch, G.E., & Liu, R. (2019, April). Neural integration of visual and semantic number knowledge in 4th graders and adults. Poster presented at the BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD.

Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, March). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (2019, March). How neural representations during encoding predict recall success and failure for dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the 19th Annual University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.

Paulus, J.P., Koch, G.E., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, November). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, November). A role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sleep and Circadian Science Research Day, Pittsburgh, PA.

Koch, G.E., Paulus, J.P., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, October). Investigating how neural representations during encoding predict later memory retrieval. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute’s 4th Annual Brain Day, Pittsburgh, PA.

Zhang, Q., Popov, V., Koch, G.E., Calloway, R.C., & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, July). Fast Memory Integration Facilitated by Schema Consistency. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.

Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, June). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the 6th Annual International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.

Paulus, J., Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, June). The role of sleep in the consolidation of dynamic episodes. Poster presented at the 6th Annual International Workshop on Advanced Learning Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA.

Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, March). Perceptual and conceptual dimensions impacting animate items in the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.

Koch, G.E. & Coutanche, M.N. (2018, March). Perceptual and conceptual dimensions impacting animate items in the human ventral stream. Poster presented at the 18th Annual University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2017, October). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute’s 3rd Annual Brain Day, Pittsburgh, PA.

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2017, May). The interaction of conceptual dimensions for animate items in the human ventral stream. Workshop on Concepts, Actions and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy.

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2017, March). Neural correlates for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Koch, G.E., Tokowicz, N., & Warren, T. (2016, November). Translation ambiguity and individual differences affect L2 vocabulary learning in bilinguals and monolinguals. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Coutanche, M.N. & Koch, G.E. (2016, November). The neural basis for trait memory differences. Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute’s 2nd Annual Brain Day, Pittsburgh, PA.

Srinivasan, P., McDowell, G., Koch, G., & Tokowicz, N. (2016, April). Just bilingual advantage in language learning? Poster presented at the Annual Psychology Department Research Poster Session at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Koch, G., Eddington, C., & Tokowicz, N. (2015, April). Individual Differences in Learning Translation-Ambiguous Words. Poster presented at the Annual Psychology Department Research Poster Session at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.