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R coder / Specialising in big data, data visualisation and statistical modelling
Annie Visser-Quinn
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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I live for problems. I love streamlining, and breaking them down into bitesize pieces, such that anyone can work with, and understand. Which is why I love writing code… now. I did not want to learn to code. Five years, and thousands of hours later, I can’t imagine life without it. The life of a coder is not the solitary, single-minded and siloed existence I anticipated. It’s the exact opposite and it suits me perfectly.
I relish the new challenges, creative solutions and flexibility. Coding has allowed me to work across a range of subjects and meet a vast array of different people: earth system modellers, psychologists, policy makers, water managers, to name but a few.
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Here are a few highlights from my work as a Research Associate on the Water Resilient Cities project over the last two years.
1. My first project involved leading and coordinating a group of nine senior researchers from six institutions.
+ I developed a spatio-temporal framework for hydro-hazard impact and uncertainty;
+ This was my first opportunity to work with netCDF and develop my coding skills for use on big data at a national scale;
+ Outputs have been disseminated to a mix of specialist and non-specialist audiences through a series of interactive maps.
2. I have been developing two R packages in collaboration with a psychologist and specialist in human factors.
+ OSMtidy is for the data wrangling and tidying of OpenStreetMaps data. Designed to be user-friendly for those new to R, the inputs are a shapefile and an Excel spreadsheet of filter rules. Outputs are in the form of a shapefile and an interactive Leaflet map;
+ OSMtidy can be used as a standalone package or as the input to AHgen, which generates and analyses a systems model known as the Abstraction Hierarchy.
3. I’ve supervised seven dissertation projects. Coding has been central to each.
+ (Sadly) Coding is not part of the curriculum at Heriot-Watt;
+ I have written two getting-started guides. Thereafter, I encourage my students to develop their coding skills through doing, through practical hands on experience using big data.
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R is my speciality, but I also have facility with Python and JavaScript.
R packages I have experience with include:
airGR; broom; http://*******.***; EflowStats; evd; extRemes; glmulti; igraph; leaflet; lfstat; markovchain; ncdf4; osmdata; psych; rnrfa; sensitivity; sf; sp; tidyverse; tnet; tokenizers; visNetwork; zoo
I relish the new challenges, creative solutions and flexibility. Coding has allowed me to work across a range of subjects and meet a vast array of different people: earth system modellers, psychologists, policy makers, water managers, to name but a few.
+++++
Here are a few highlights from my work as a Research Associate on the Water Resilient Cities project over the last two years.
1. My first project involved leading and coordinating a group of nine senior researchers from six institutions.
+ I developed a spatio-temporal framework for hydro-hazard impact and uncertainty;
+ This was my first opportunity to work with netCDF and develop my coding skills for use on big data at a national scale;
+ Outputs have been disseminated to a mix of specialist and non-specialist audiences through a series of interactive maps.
2. I have been developing two R packages in collaboration with a psychologist and specialist in human factors.
+ OSMtidy is for the data wrangling and tidying of OpenStreetMaps data. Designed to be user-friendly for those new to R, the inputs are a shapefile and an Excel spreadsheet of filter rules. Outputs are in the form of a shapefile and an interactive Leaflet map;
+ OSMtidy can be used as a standalone package or as the input to AHgen, which generates and analyses a systems model known as the Abstraction Hierarchy.
3. I’ve supervised seven dissertation projects. Coding has been central to each.
+ (Sadly) Coding is not part of the curriculum at Heriot-Watt;
+ I have written two getting-started guides. Thereafter, I encourage my students to develop their coding skills through doing, through practical hands on experience using big data.
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R is my speciality, but I also have facility with Python and JavaScript.
R packages I have experience with include:
airGR; broom; http://*******.***; EflowStats; evd; extRemes; glmulti; igraph; leaflet; lfstat; markovchain; ncdf4; osmdata; psych; rnrfa; sensitivity; sf; sp; tidyverse; tnet; tokenizers; visNetwork; zoo
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English
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My education
2015
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2020
Heriot-Watt University
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, Civil Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, Civil Engineering
+ Thesis by publication, permitting greater academic presence whilst allowing more time for research.
ABSTRACT
Methods quantifying the impact and uncertainty of climate change on flow regime are well-established, whilst the impact on hydroecological response is not well understood. This thesis saw the development of a coupled hydrological and hydroecological modelling framework to assess the impact of climate change on hydroecological response in a quantitative manner; uncertainty characterisation was a central focus. The ability of the framework was illustrated through application to a case study river. The results indicated a virtually certain reduction in instream biodiversity as well as disruption to the natural low flow processes, essential to ecosystem functioning. The work was extended to cover a project in India, in partnership with a Post-Doctoral researcher.
2010
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2015
Heriot-Watt University
Master of Engineering, MEng, Civil Engineering
Master of Engineering, MEng, Civil Engineering
+ First Class Honours at the top of my class;
+ Awarded the 2015 ICE Student Prize for “outstanding undergraduate work in Civil Engineering”;
+ Awarded the Watt Club Medal for “exceptional merit and distinction”.
THESIS
+ Developing a model relating antecedent low flows and macroinvertebrate health in the River Nar;
+ Supervised by Professor Lindsay Beevers and Dr Sandhya Patidar.
COURSES
+ Specialised in hydrology & hydraulics and environmental engineering;
focusing on the environment and hydrology & hydraulics;
+ Many courses were group-based, in which I often took a leading role, helping to develop communication skills – written and verbal – as well as management and planning;
+ Demonstrating my capacity and desire to develop new skills, I was one of only a few to take an elective Spanish Beginners course – for which I received a grade-A.
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