Mike Dawson
Lead Data Scientist, Weiss Residential Research
- Mike is the lead data scientist at WA.
- His responsibilities include algorithm development, machine learning model training, model testing and data wrangling.
- Mike combines his expertise in math, residential real estate, data wrangling and machine learning to build and refine WA’s products.
- Mike was instrumental in the design and development of Valpro WA’s leading AVM. He designed several valuation algorithms for Valpro. These algorithms leverage a wide variety of techniques including K-nearest neighbor, gradient boosting, classification trees and regression.
- Mike made major contributions to the development of condition adjusted ValPro (AVV). WA uses condition scores from photos analysis, market data and a WA trained Neural Networks to produce AVV.
- He has also done data analysis and model design for bespoke projects related to distressed discounts, rental properties, and loan portfolio matching.
- Mike has a BS in mathematics from MIT and a Masters in mathematics from the University of Chicago.