Brian Diggs
Program Analyst at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Diggs is a Program Analyst with 14 years of experience translating complex biomedical data into actionable insights for academic medical centers and the Veterans Health Administration. Trained as a theoretical physicist (Ph.D.), he applies rigorous statistical methods and reproducible research practices to healthcare analytics, co-authoring over one hundred peer-reviewed articles and serving as statistical consultant to the World Journal of Surgery. At the VA he leads projects redesigning hospital benchmarking and built a flexible SQL Server–based registry to monitor non-formulary medication safety, blending informatics, program design, and operational deployment. An active contributor to the widely used tidyverse/ggplot2 project, he has improved visual analytics features and robustness—bringing open-source data-visualization expertise to clinical reporting. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he bridges deep quantitative training with practical systems implementation and stakeholder-facing communication.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, with computer option, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, with computer option at Harvey Mudd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (32)
data-visualizations10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tidyverse/ggplot2
Jul 2011 - Jun 2015
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (focused on ggplot2 library development)
Software Engineer (focused on ggplot2 library development)Contributions:29 commits, 24 comments, 4 issues in 4 years
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the `ggplot2` repository by adding features and fixing bugs. Key contributions include adding `xintercept` and `yintercept` functionality to scales, enhancing the `autoplot` function, and improving the handling of `NA` values within the `stat_bin2d` function. Furthermore, they improved documentation and refactored code for the `facet_grid` and `gg_dep` functions. They also addressed segment annotation transformations and fixed an issue with the polar coordinate data munching.
graphicrvisualisationdata-visualisation
BrianDiggs/ggplot2
Jul 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
grammar-of-graphicsgrammargraphics
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