Work
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023 | great_tables - table styling taken to an unhealthy extreme (WIP; w/ Rich Ionnane). |
| quartodoc - generate python API documentation in quarto. | |
| 2022 | Wrote siuba.org guide. |
| Wrote py-shiny guide. | |
| pins for python - save and share data using any cloud bucket. | |
| 2021 | Consultant. Built out data team for warehousing all of California’s transit data (calitp.org, talk by Hunter Owens at rstudio::conf()). |
| 2020 | Spent the year working on siuba (rstudio::conf() talk). |
| 2019 | siuba - a port of dplyr to python. |
| 2018-2019 | DataCamp Signal, adaptive assessments of data science skill (founded team; built models) |
| 2016-2017 | DataCamp code execution and grading tools. |
| 2012 - 2016 | PhD from Princeton, researching human memory and psychometrics. |
Talks
- PyCon US 2024: Making Beautiful, Publication Quality Tables in Python is Possible in 2024
- posit::conf() 2023: Siuba and Duckdb: Analyzing Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Coalesce 2022: The Accidental Analytics Engineer
- posit::conf() 2021: Bringing the Tidyverse to Python with Siuba
- DataPhilly 2020: Data Analysis is Blitz Chess
- Code for America Brigade Congress 2020: Service as a Service (Panel)
Open Source Tools
| Year | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | great_tables | (WIP) Beautiful table formatting in python (w/ Rich Iannone). |
| 2023 | quartodoc | Easy breezy beautiful API documentation in python. |
| 2022 | pins-python | Save and share data across a range of cloud backends. |
| 2022 | databackend | Depend on classes from other packages without importing them. |
| 2020 | wrestlr | Experiment to convert R code to python |
| 2020 | dbcooper-py | Tab-complete the names of tables in your warehouse. |
| 2019 | siuba | Port of dplyr to python. Can convert pandas code to SQL. |
| 2019 | dbpath | R library for using a URI to connect to a database (similar to sqlalchemy). |
| 2019 | astar-r | A* algorithm in R |
| 2019 | tidymirt | R library with broom methods for mirt models (w/ Dave Robinson) |
| 2017 | antlr-plsql | PLSQL parsing and AST generation |
| 2017 | antlr-ast | A Python package for generating abstract syntax trees from ANTLR4 grammars. |
| 2016 | pythonwhat | Code exercise grading tool (w/ Filip Schouwenaars) |
Open Source Contributions
| Name | Focus |
|---|---|
| griffe | Contribute to docstring parsers |
| gusty | Misc stuff, lots of feedback chats |
| py-shiny | Documentation, lots of feedback chats |
| ibis | Helped move docs to quartodoc |
| code-for-philly/chime | Covid dashboard. Helped get things off the ground |
Not Quite Talks but Almost
Volunteer
- 2022-Present: Code for Philly Senior Advisor
- 2020-2022: Code for Philly Co-Director
- 2020: CHIME, a dashboard for hospital capacity planning during COVID-19 pandemic.
- partnership between Code for Philly and Penn Medicine.
- accidentally helped by putting two people in a slack channel (talk by Michael Becker).
- 2019: PLSE Criminal Record Expungement Project
- Interviewed 3 non-profits about their use of technology to expunge criminal records.
- Organized collab between Code for Philly and Philly Lawyers for Social Equity.
Awards n Stuff
- Al Dia 40 Under 40 (2022)
- Leadership Philadelphia Keeper’s Program (2020)
- Technical.ly Philly RealList Engineers (2020)