Arcenis is a data scientist at the Hiring Lab. He has a Bachelor’s in Applied Economics from Ithaca College and a Master’s in Economics from the City University of New York — the City College where he found a love for working with economic data. Arcenis previously worked at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics where he gained proficiency in programming in R and coordinated activities for the R Users’ Group. Later he went on to work in consulting in data science for U.S. federal agencies.