Making sense of the world, bit by bit.

Zachary Kitt currently lends his expertise in big data and AI toward strengthening governance and human rights around the world. He has previous experience as a data engineer for a Silicon Valley unicorn, a machine learning engineer at S&P Global, and a quantitative geopolitical analyst at Kensho Technologies. He has managed projects for the U.S. Marines, Navy, and Air Force, and separately secured an AFWERX grant for AI development as a technical co-founder. He holds degrees from UCSB and Yale.

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Written Work

Using Neural Networks to Identify Hate Speech
12/01/18 - I built a hate speech classifier using a convolutional neural network and word embeddings trained on Twitter data. At 90% accuracy, my model performs as well as other models suggested within the literature, without requiring any feature engineering.
Examining Oxnard's Storefronts with QGIS
11/04/18 - Visualizing the economic development and quality of life for Oxnard, CA using the Storefront Index and QGIS. Includes instructions for others wanting to perform similar analysis on their home towns.
The (Unchanging) Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
08/22/17 - An introduction to Lewis Fry Richardson and his work on deadly quarrels. I also use statistical analysis to verify that his findings remain relevant to modern conflict.
Czech-American Relations: Maturing Together
08/09/15 - A small opinion piece written for Mezinárodní Politika that considers whether or not Czech-American relations have worsened since the Velvet Revolution.
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era (Book Review)
11/10/14 - As seen in Perspectives Journal (Issue 2, 2014).
The Brazilian Tenentes
03/10/12 - Written for a research assignment at UCSB describing Tenentism: the short-lived ideology with a long-distance approach that gives "grassroots movements" a new meaning.