About Me

I am Anne Hansen, the founder of Epic Data Science. I have a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of California, Riverside and over 10 years of experience applying statistics, analytics and data science techniques in several business domains: manufacturing, e-commerce, finance, marketing, IT and software-as-a-service (SaaS). 

After grad school, I started my career as a Statistician at Intel, supporting several engineering teams in high volume manufacturing research and development. After many years at Intel, I started developing a strong curiosity about the business itself - why were we building any particular product? What was the customer using it for, why did we price it a particular way? I wanted to learn more about business decisions. This led me to a data scientist position at an e-commerce company selling mattresses-in-a-box, Tuft & Needle. Working at T&N introduced me to the world of marketing analytics and gave me a front row seat to business decisions and how data might inform them. After the several years there, I moved to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company and have led a team of data scientists, architects, and analysts reporting to the CFO and providing insights to all areas of the business: Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance, and Product to name a few.

I believe that data science & analytics solutions can be strategically plugged into businesses and be extremely effective.

My ideal customer is an established business that has invested in some data infrastructure (or wants to start doing so), but is not yet getting real value out of it. Historically, only larger companies have the resources to invest into data science & analytics teams, but technology has changed rapidly in the last decade. Generally, software tools are better & more affordable or even free, and I believe it's possible for most businesses to gain insights from their data with a reasonable investment.