Chester Ismay
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Consulting

Let’s Work Together

I help individuals and teams make sense of messy data, build smart tools, and tell compelling stories with evidence.

If you’re navigating the ever-changing landscape of AI, data science, or statistical thinking, I can help you move from confusion to clarity and from dashboards to decisions.

Interested in collaborating or just want to chat? Let’s find a time to talk via email or on LinkedIn. I’d love to hear what you’re working on and explore ways that I can help.


How I Work

  • Clear and effective communication (no jargon overload)
  • Collaborative by default
  • Timely, organized, and prepared
  • Always focused on your actual questions, not just your data
  • Remote-friendly, flexible, and fun to work with
  • Able to travel if meeting up in person is preferred

Areas of Expertise

Technical Communication
Translate complex statistical and AI concepts into clear, engaging insights for all audiences.

→ Slide decks, interactive tutorials, executive summaries, and curriculum design

Data Science Strategy
Build data and AI capabilities aligned with business goals through appropriate problem framing.

→ From proof-of-concept to production-ready workflows

LLM & AI Integration
Leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to augment and improve your analyses, reporting, or user-facing tools.

→ Prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, trust and transparency

Project Planning & Execution
Lead data projects from scoping to delivery with a clear, outcome-driven approach.

→ Stakeholder alignment, milestones, deliverables, and retrospectives

Supervised Machine Learning
Develop, tune, and evaluate predictive models that solve real-world problems.

→ Classification, regression, cross-validation, and model deployment

Statistical Consulting
Design sound experiments, choose the right models, and interpret results responsibly.

→ From t-tests to simulation-based inference to multi-level models to causal inference

Reproducible Workflows
Streamline your team’s work with R, Python, and literate programming.

→ Reports, dashboards, automated pipelines, version control

Data Wrangling
Tame messy data using modern tools in Python like pandas and polars or in R with the tidyverse and tidymodels.

→ Cleaning, reshaping, validating, and preparing data at scale

Data Visualization
Craft dashboards and visual narratives that speak clearly and drive action.

→ Storytelling with ggplot2, plotly, Shiny, and more


Favorite Tools

R • Python • Quarto/R Markdown • Shiny • Jupyter • HuggingFace • SQL • Git


Ideal Projects

I love working with…

  • Nonprofits, educators, and mission-driven teams looking to build trust in their data
  • Early-stage teams needing a fractional data lead
  • Educators and curriculum teams creating AI/data learning tools
  • Organizations seeking guidance on building with LLMs or validating models
  • Researchers or analysts who need to publish reproducible, interactive reports