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Nick Strayer
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.
Currently searching for a position that allows me to build tools leveraging a combination of visualization, machine learning, and software engineering to help people explore and understand their data in new and useful ways.
Education
PhD. Candidate, Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
2020 - 2015
- Working on Bayesian network models & interactive visualization platforms
- University Graduate Fellow
B.S., Mathematics, Statistics (minor C.S.)
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
2015 - 2011
- Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
Selected Positions
Graduate Research Assistant
TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)
Vanderbilt University
2020 - 2015
- Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
- Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.
Data Science Researcher
Data Science Lab
Johns Hopkins University
2018 - 2017
- Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
- Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).
Data Journalist - Graphics Department
New York Times
New York, New York
2016
- Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
- Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
Selected Writing
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews.
The Traveling Metallurgist
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
- Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.
The Great Student Migration
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.