Andrea Gilardi
Esercitatore
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Gilardi is a statistician and PhD candidate in Statistics and Mathematical Finance at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca with nine years of teaching and lab support experience, currently serving as esercitatore for undergraduate statistics courses. He combines strong academic credentials (110 e lode at both Bachelor and MSc levels) with practical data-science skills, including Python tutoring and hands-on support of university labs. As a contributor to the widely used r-spatial sf package, he has improved GDAL integration and st_read functionality—work that enhances spatial data handling for R users. Based in Lombardy, he bridges rigorous research, classroom instruction, and open-source development, making him adept at turning theoretical methods into reproducible tools for applied spatial and statistical analysis.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, 110 e Lode, Bachelor's degree, Statistics, 110 e Lode at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
data-handling10
gdal10
r-package10
spatial-data10
r10
sql9
geospatial-analysis8
maps6
openstreetmap6
kernel-density6
polygon6
igraph6
ggplot6
leaflet6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
r-spatial/sf
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Simple Features for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the `sf` R package, focusing on extending and refining the functionality of the `gdal_utils` and `st_read` functions. Their work included adding examples and improving the documentation, as well as incorporating the `dialect` option into the `st_read` function. The changes demonstrate the user's engagement in improving the usability and capabilities of spatial data manipulation within the package.
r-packagespatialgeosrstatsgdal
ropensci/osmextract
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Download and import OpenStreetMap data from Geofabrik and other providers
Contributions:10 releases, 21 reviews, 790 commits in 3 years 1 month
openstreetmap-datageofabrikgeoprovidersrstats
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