Projects

Independent projects

Olympic history

• Kaggle dataset - I scraped and cleaned a complete historical dataset of Olympic athletes and medal results from www.sports-reference.com. The dataset has been downloaded from Kaggle over 170K times (as of June, 2024). git
• Kaggle kernel - I published an extensive analysis to accompany the dataset, focusing on exploratory analysis and visualization with R.

Twitter analytics

• Twitterstorm dynamics - I pulled ~5K tweets from a Twitterstorm that embroiled a colleague and did a deep dive into the dynamics of the storm. git
• NHL vs female Olympian salaries - I built a model of Salary ~ Twitter popularity for NHL hockey players and showed that if female U.S. Olympic hockey players were subjected to the same model, they would be millionaires. git

Open source software

• btw- R wrapper for BayesTraitsV3

• caRds- The most important work I’ve ever done

Research topics

• Public health

• Primate skull evolution

• Primate parasite ecology

• Mosquito spatial ecology