Agent skill

Senior Data Scientist

by alirezarezvani in alirezarezvani/claude-skills

World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics.

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Install Senior Data Scientist

skills CLI
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill senior-data-scientist -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills senior-data-scientist --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/engineering-team/skills/senior-data-scientist .claude/skills/senior-data-scientist && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
senior-data-scientist
GitHub stars
28k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
52 words
Files
7 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics.

  • Works in 4 steps: Design an A/B Test → Build a Feature Engineering Pipeline → Train, Evaluate, and Select a Prediction… → …
  • Analysing controlled experiments
  • SKILL.md covers Core Workflows, Reference Documentation and Common Commands
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python and python3

What it does

Senior Data Scientist is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics. Covers A/B testing (sample sizing, two-proportion z-tests, Bonferroni correction), difference-in-differences, feature engineering pipelines (Scikit-learn, XGBoost), cross-validated model evaluation (AUC-ROC, AUC-PR, SHAP), and MLflow experiment tracking — using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn), R, and SQL. Use when designing or analysing controlled experiments, building…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `references/experiment_design_frameworks.md`, `references/feature_engineering_patterns.md` and `references/statistical_methods_advanced.md`).

It sits in Data & Analytics, covering Machine learning and Econometrics and empirical research. It works with scikit-learn, MLflow, Python and SQL. The repository describes itself as: 380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Analysing controlled experiments
  • Building and evaluating classification
  • Regression models
  • Performing causal analysis on observational data

Example prompts

  • “/senior-data-scientist”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Design an A/B Test
  2. Build a Feature Engineering Pipeline
  3. Train, Evaluate, and Select a Prediction Model
  4. Causal Inference: Difference-in-Differences

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 19392f7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python
    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Senior Data Scientist loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 192 tokens; SKILL.md has 52 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~192
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from alirezarezvani/claude-skills at commit 19392f7, republished under its MIT licence (© alirezarezvani). 52 words, ~2,348 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/senior-data-scientist/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 6 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
senior-data-scientist
description
World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics. Covers A/B testing (sample sizing, two-proportion z-tests, Bonferroni correction), difference-in-differences, feature engineering pipelines (Scikit-learn, XGBoost), cross-validated model evaluation (AUC-ROC, AUC-PR, SHAP), and MLflow experiment tracking — using Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn), R, and SQL. Use when designing or analysing controlled experiments, building and evaluating classification or regression models, performing causal analysis on observational data, engineering features for structured tabular datasets, or translating statistical findings into data-driven business decisions.

Senior Data Scientist

World-class senior data scientist skill for production-grade AI/ML/Data systems.

Core Workflows

1. Design an A/B Test
python
import numpy as np
from scipy import stats

def calculate_sample_size(baseline_rate, mde, alpha=0.05, power=0.8):
    """
    Calculate required sample size per variant.
    baseline_rate: current conversion rate (e.g. 0.10)
    mde: minimum detectable effect (relative, e.g. 0.05 = 5% lift)
    """
    p1 = baseline_rate
    p2 = baseline_rate * (1 + mde)
    effect_size = abs(p2 - p1) / np.sqrt((p1 * (1 - p1) + p2 * (1 - p2)) / 2)
    z_alpha = stats.norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2)
    z_beta = stats.norm.ppf(power)
    n = ((z_alpha + z_beta) / effect_size) ** 2
    return int(np.ceil(n))

def analyze_experiment(control, treatment, alpha=0.05):
    """
    Run two-proportion z-test and return structured results.
    control/treatment: dicts with 'conversions' and 'visitors'.
    """
    p_c = control["conversions"] / control["visitors"]
    p_t = treatment["conversions"] / treatment["visitors"]
    pooled = (control["conversions"] + treatment["conversions"]) / (control["visitors"] + treatment["visitors"])
    se = np.sqrt(pooled * (1 - pooled) * (1 / control["visitors"] + 1 / treatment["visitors"]))
    z = (p_t - p_c) / se
    p_value = 2 * (1 - stats.norm.cdf(abs(z)))
    ci_low = (p_t - p_c) - stats.norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2) * se
    ci_high = (p_t - p_c) + stats.norm.ppf(1 - alpha / 2) * se
    return {
        "lift": (p_t - p_c) / p_c,
        "p_value": p_value,
        "significant": p_value < alpha,
        "ci_95": (ci_low, ci_high),
    }

# --- Experiment checklist ---
# 1. Define ONE primary metric and pre-register secondary metrics.
# 2. Calculate sample size BEFORE starting: calculate_sample_size(0.10, 0.05)
# 3. Randomise at the user (not session) level to avoid leakage.
# 4. Run for at least 1 full business cycle (typically 2 weeks).
# 5. Check for sample ratio mismatch: abs(n_control - n_treatment) / expected < 0.01
# 6. Analyze with analyze_experiment() and report lift + CI, not just p-value.
# 7. Apply Bonferroni correction if testing multiple metrics: alpha / n_metrics
2. Build a Feature Engineering Pipeline
python
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler, OneHotEncoder
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer

def build_feature_pipeline(numeric_cols, categorical_cols, date_cols=None):
    """
    Returns a fitted-ready ColumnTransformer for structured tabular data.
    """
    numeric_pipeline = Pipeline([
        ("impute", SimpleImputer(strategy="median")),
        ("scale",  StandardScaler()),
    ])
    categorical_pipeline = Pipeline([
        ("impute", SimpleImputer(strategy="most_frequent")),
        ("encode", OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown="ignore", sparse_output=False)),
    ])
    transformers = [
        ("num", numeric_pipeline, numeric_cols),
        ("cat", categorical_pipeline, categorical_cols),
    ]
    return ColumnTransformer(transformers, remainder="drop")

def add_time_features(df, date_col):
    """Extract cyclical and lag features from a datetime column."""
    df = df.copy()
    df[date_col] = pd.to_datetime(df[date_col])
    df["dow_sin"] = np.sin(2 * np.pi * df[date_col].dt.dayofweek / 7)
    df["dow_cos"] = np.cos(2 * np.pi * df[date_col].dt.dayofweek / 7)
    df["month_sin"] = np.sin(2 * np.pi * df[date_col].dt.month / 12)
    df["month_cos"] = np.cos(2 * np.pi * df[date_col].dt.month / 12)
    df["is_weekend"] = (df[date_col].dt.dayofweek >= 5).astype(int)
    return df

# --- Feature engineering checklist ---
# 1. Never fit transformers on the full dataset — fit on train, transform test.
# 2. Log-transform right-skewed numeric features before scaling.
# 3. For high-cardinality categoricals (>50 levels), use target encoding or embeddings.
# 4. Generate lag/rolling features BEFORE the train/test split to avoid leakage.
# 5. Document each feature's business meaning alongside its code.
3. Train, Evaluate, and Select a Prediction Model
python
from sklearn.model_selection import StratifiedKFold, cross_validate
from sklearn.metrics import make_scorer, roc_auc_score, average_precision_score
import xgboost as xgb
import mlflow

SCORERS = {
    "roc_auc":  make_scorer(roc_auc_score, needs_proba=True),
    "avg_prec": make_scorer(average_precision_score, needs_proba=True),
}

def evaluate_model(model, X, y, cv=5):
    """
    Cross-validate and return mean ± std for each scorer.
    Use StratifiedKFold for classification to preserve class balance.
    """
    cv_results = cross_validate(
        model, X, y,
        cv=StratifiedKFold(n_splits=cv, shuffle=True, random_state=42),
        scoring=SCORERS,
        return_train_score=True,
    )
    summary = {}
    for metric in SCORERS:
        test_scores = cv_results[f"test_{metric}"]
        summary[metric] = {"mean": test_scores.mean(), "std": test_scores.std()}
        # Flag overfitting: large gap between train and test score
        train_mean = cv_results[f"train_{metric}"].mean()
        summary[metric]["overfit_gap"] = train_mean - test_scores.mean()
    return summary

def train_and_log(model, X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test, run_name):
    """Train model and log all artefacts to MLflow."""
    with mlflow.start_run(run_name=run_name):
        model.fit(X_train, y_train)
        proba = model.predict_proba(X_test)[:, 1]
        metrics = {
            "roc_auc":  roc_auc_score(y_test, proba),
            "avg_prec": average_precision_score(y_test, proba),
        }
        mlflow.log_params(model.get_params())
        mlflow.log_metrics(metrics)
        mlflow.sklearn.log_model(model, "model")
        return metrics

# --- Model evaluation checklist ---
# 1. Always report AUC-PR alongside AUC-ROC for imbalanced datasets.
# 2. Check overfit_gap > 0.05 as a warning sign of overfitting.
# 3. Calibrate probabilities (Platt scaling / isotonic) before production use.
# 4. Compute SHAP values to validate feature importance makes business sense.
# 5. Run a baseline (e.g. DummyClassifier) and verify the model beats it.
# 6. Log every run to MLflow — never rely on notebook output for comparison.
4. Causal Inference: Difference-in-Differences
python
import statsmodels.formula.api as smf

def diff_in_diff(df, outcome, treatment_col, post_col, controls=None):
    """
    Estimate ATT via OLS DiD with optional covariates.
    df must have: outcome, treatment_col (0/1), post_col (0/1).
    Returns the interaction coefficient (treatment × post) and its p-value.
    """
    covariates = " + ".join(controls) if controls else ""
    formula = (
        f"{outcome} ~ {treatment_col} * {post_col}"
        + (f" + {covariates}" if covariates else "")
    )
    result = smf.ols(formula, data=df).fit(cov_type="HC3")
    interaction = f"{treatment_col}:{post_col}"
    return {
        "att":     result.params[interaction],
        "p_value": result.pvalues[interaction],
        "ci_95":   result.conf_int().loc[interaction].tolist(),
        "summary": result.summary(),
    }

# --- Causal inference checklist ---
# 1. Validate parallel trends in pre-period before trusting DiD estimates.
# 2. Use HC3 robust standard errors to handle heteroskedasticity.
# 3. For panel data, cluster SEs at the unit level (add groups= param to fit).
# 4. Consider propensity score matching if groups differ at baseline.
# 5. Report the ATT with confidence interval, not just statistical significance.

Reference Documentation

  • Statistical Methods: references/statistical_methods_advanced.md
  • Experiment Design Frameworks: references/experiment_design_frameworks.md
  • Feature Engineering Patterns: references/feature_engineering_patterns.md

Common Commands

bash
# Testing & linting
python -m pytest tests/ -v --cov=src/
python -m black src/ && python -m pylint src/

# Bundled pipeline scaffolds (stdlib runners — extend the process() body with project logic)
python3 scripts/experiment_designer.py --input experiment_spec.json --output experiment_design.json
python3 scripts/feature_engineering_pipeline.py --input raw_features.json --output features.json
python3 scripts/model_evaluation_suite.py --input model_predictions.json --output evaluation.json
# Each prints a JSON run report ({status, processed_items, start/end_time}); any status other
# than "completed" means the stage failed — fix before moving to the next pipeline stage.

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Files

SKILL.md and 6 other files (scripts, references) in engineering-team/skills/senior-data-scientist of alirezarezvani/claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/experiment_design_frameworks.md
  • references/feature_engineering_patterns.md
  • references/statistical_methods_advanced.md
  • scripts/experiment_designer.py
  • scripts/feature_engineering_pipeline.py
  • scripts/model_evaluation_suite.py

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Questions about Senior Data Scientist

What does Senior Data Scientist do?

World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics. Senior Data Scientist is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. World-class senior data scientist skill specialising in statistical modeling, experiment design, causal inference, and predictive analytics.

When should I use Senior Data Scientist?

Senior Data Scientist fits situations like: analysing controlled experiments; building and evaluating classification; regression models; performing causal analysis on observational data.

How do I install Senior Data Scientist in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill senior-data-scientist -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (engineering-team/skills/senior-data-scientist in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .claude/skills/senior-data-scientist in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Senior Data Scientist in Codex?

Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill senior-data-scientist -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (engineering-team/skills/senior-data-scientist in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .agents/skills/senior-data-scientist in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Senior Data Scientist in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill senior-data-scientist -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/senior-data-scientist, .gemini/skills/senior-data-scientist, .github/skills/senior-data-scientist and .opencode/skills/senior-data-scientist in your project.

What does Senior Data Scientist need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Senior Data Scientist needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python and python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Senior Data Scientist access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Senior Data Scientist safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Senior Data Scientist use?

Senior Data Scientist is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Senior Data Scientist use?

About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.1k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Senior Data Scientist?

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