| Michael Chow

Year	Description
2026	Python in late stage clinical trial submission (2026 PHUSE talk; 2025 PHUSE talk).
	Port of recipes from R to Python (WIP w/ tidymodels team).
2025	The Test Set podcast host (w/ Hadley Wickham and Wes McKinney; one year in).
	Designed Pointblank user guide, managed gt-extras internship (w/ Rich Iannone).
2024	Wrote the plotnine user guide.
	Two years at Posit (and one year).
2023	great_tables - table styling taken to an unhealthy extreme (w/ Rich Iannone).
	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.

Year	Name	Description
2025	gt-extras	Plots, icons, and color helpers for great_tables. Created and managed as an internship (w/ Jules Walzer-Goldfeld).
2023	great_tables	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)

Name	Focus
plotnine	Wrote the user guide
pointblank	User guide design
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

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.

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