Andrew Macdonald
Research Professional at Université de Sherbrooke
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Macdonald is a research professional based in Montreal with 13 years of experience translating ecological expertise into quantitative models, particularly generative Bayesian approaches. He supports scientists across the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science and brings a strong academic background—including a PhD from UBC studying species interactions in bromeliads and earlier work on plant–enemy dynamics. Comfortable with both field ecology and computational methods, he contributes technical writing and course content for data-wrangling resources like the well-regarded STAT545 UBC repository. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex ecological questions into reproducible analyses and clear teaching materials. He combines deep domain knowledge with a knack for communicating statistical ideas to diverse research teams.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (Hon), Biology, Bachelor of Science (Hon), Biology at University College of Cape Breton
Portuguese, French, Indonesian
Github Skills (6)
html10
rmarkdown10
r10
documentation9
website-development9
pandoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
STAT545-UBC/STAT545-UBC-original-website
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Main repository for STAT 545 @ University of British Columbia, a course in data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to updating and adding content to the course website. Their commits involved updating existing tutorial pages and adding new tutorials, slides, and homework assignments related to getting data from the web. They focused on content creation and organization within the website's structure, making it a central hub for course materials.
rstatsstatbritishwranglingbritish-columbia
aammd/aammd.github.io
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:42 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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