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Nick Strayer
As a software developer I use my background in data science to build tools to help people explore, understand, and work with their data better. 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.
Selected Industry Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
Current - 2024
- Working on all things up and down the stack of the Positron data science IDE.
Senior Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
2024 - 2023
- Creator and lead developer of the ShinyUiEditor low-code tool for building Shiny applications with a drag-and-drop interface
Software Engineer
Posit
Remote
2023 - 2020
- Helping make programming web applications with R easier and more beautiful on the Shiny team
- Helped create and release Shiny for Python. A ground-up rewrite of the Shiny app development platform for Python.
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.
Education
PhD., Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
2020
- Disertation: Network analysis and visualization for electronic health records data.
- Focused on network models & interactive visualization platforms for electronic health records data
B.S., Mathematics, Statistics (minor C.S.)
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
2015
- Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
Selected Data Science Writing
The Great Student Migration
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.
Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times
The New York Times
N/A
2016
- GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
- Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS
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 multiple times