👋 Hi, I’m Andrew

I’m a data scientist in the Raleigh-Durham area, with a PhD in sociology and an MS in statistics from Duke. I use this site to showcase side projects I’ve built — the best place to start is the featured series below. If you want to get in touch: carr.andrewjohn [at] gmail [dot] com.

Featured project

Three-part series

AutoML, end to end

A custom AutoML package for predictive modeling — built from scratch, benchmarked against Prophet and sktime, and deployed to AWS with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and SageMaker.

automl_tool · automl-deploy

All posts

Deploying AutoML

Deploying a custom AutoML tool in AWS.

January 8, 2026

Benchmarking AutoML for Time Series Forecasting

A comparison of AutoML to Prophet and sktime.

December 8, 2025

SQLbot

Building a conversational SQL agent with LangChain that translates natural language queries into database operations.

January 21, 2025

AutoML

Building a custom AutoML tool for predictive modeling with automatic model selection and interpretation.

December 18, 2024

Are We in Kansas Anymore?

Analyzing trends in Hollywood film over four decades using data scraped from Wikipedia.

November 1, 2019

Building a Recommendation System with Beer Data

Creating a beer recommender system using item-based collaborative filtering on 5.5 million ratings.

July 16, 2019