Kristina Solis, PhD

Project 2: Preparing for flu season in the US

The goal of this project was to help a medical staffing agency plan for the coming influenza season (2018) by 1) Determining whether influenza occurs seasonally, or throughout the year; 2) Finding which populations are vulnerable and in which states they are most affected and; 3) Prioritizing states as low, medium, or high-need based on vulnerable populations.

Project 3: Rockbuster Stealth Analysis

The Rockbuster Stealth (fictional) movie rental company plans to move to streaming using its existing movie licenses in order to stay competitive. The objective of this project was to answer questions from the management board regarding current Rockbuster customers, geographic variations, and what types of movies contribute the most to revenue gains.

Project 4: Instacart Basket Analysis

Instacart stakeholders are interested in the variety of customer in their database along with their purchasing behaviors. The objective of this task is to perform an initial data and exploratory analysis of Instacart data in order to derive insights and suggest strategies for better targeted marketing. I decided to focus on three employment types: student, worker, and retired.

Project 5: Unplayed Steam Games Analysis

This project has two components: 1) Guided data analysis with CareerFoundry tasks including exploratory visual analysis, geographical visualizations, supervised machine learning and unsupervised machine learning; and 2) An independent project that analyzed different variables to determine why over 75% of Steam games never get played.

A Comparison of Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Chronologies and Traditions Along the Texas Coast

The Texas Coastal Plains (TCP) is home to some of the largest and oldest precontact hunter-gatherer mortuary sites in the US. In this poster, we compare three of these mortuary sites in order to evaluate the chronological distributions of burials, understand long-term patterns in burial populations, and better understand the distribution of burial goods and what these goods say, if
anything, about social status.

SAA 2019 • 21st March 2023

Postmarital Residence Patterns of Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherers from the Loma Sandia (41LK28) Mortuary Site, Live Oak County, Texas: An Analysis using 87Sr/86Sr

Archaeologists researching hunter-gatherers in the Texas Coastal Plains (TCP) & Central Texas have noted differences between sexes in δ 13 C and δ 15 N studies.
These differences maybe be due to patrilocality. This study utilizes strontium ratio isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) analysis to evaluate postmarital residence patterns in the TCP Late Archaic by comparing male and female 87Sr/86Sr from Loma Sandia (41LK28), a Late Archaic mortuary site in the TCP. If patrilocality is present, male Sr values will be similar to local Sr values, while female Sr values will be heterogenous by comparison.

Late Holocene Climate Change and the Emergence of Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality in the Late Texas Coastal Plains: An Analysis using Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr

This poster presents the preliminary analyses of data used to assess territoriality in the Texas Coastal Plains by comparing Late Archaic human 87Sr/86Sr to bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr obtained from modern fauna. The results will help determine if 87Sr/86Sr is a useful tool for the study of emergent hunter-gatherer territoriality during the context of Late Holocene climate and cultural changes

Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality in the Late Archaic Texas Coastal Plain using Strontium Stable Isotope Ratios - A Pilot Study

Between Fall 2014 and Summer 2015, I conducted a pilot study analyzing six human enamel samples from the site of TCP site of Loma Sandia (41LK28). Twenty faunal samples from two geologic zones were also analyzed to find the bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr range for each of these zones to serve as a point of comparison for human enamel samples.

Kristina Solis, PhD

About Me

Featured Data Projects

Project 1: Video Game Popularity

Project 2: Preparing for flu season in the US

Project 3: Rockbuster Stealth Analysis

Project 4: Instacart Basket Analysis

Project 5: Unplayed Steam Games Analysis

Archaeology Presentations

A Comparison of Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Chronologies and Traditions Along the Texas Coast

Postmarital Residence Patterns of Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherers from the Loma Sandia (41LK28) Mortuary Site, Live Oak County, Texas: An Analysis using 87Sr/86Sr

Demographic Change thru Age Profile Analysis of Burial Data: Hunter-Gatherers on the Texas Coastal Plain

Late Holocene Climate Change and the Emergence of Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality in the Late Texas Coastal Plains: An Analysis using Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr

Strontium Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis of the Loma Sandia Archaic Mortary Site of South Texas

Hunter-Gatherer Territoriality in the Late Archaic Texas Coastal Plain using Strontium Stable Isotope Ratios - A Pilot Study

The Graveyard Shift: Spatial Analysis of South Texas Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery Sites

Relations between South Texas Hunter-gatherers and Complex Mesoamerican Societies

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Academic CV (Archaeology)

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