Christopher Davis
Associate Professor Of Teaching, Math Department
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Davis is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the UC Irvine Math Department with a background that bridges rigorous academic research and practical software development. After a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, he has spent the past decade teaching and developing curriculum while also contributing code to open-source projects. He has meaningful back-end contributions to the widely used Altair visualization library, modernizing its Vega-Lite integration and resolving tricky parameter-handling issues in multi-view charts. His blend of mathematical training and hands-on engineering lets him translate complex theoretical ideas into reliable, user-facing tools for data visualization and education. Based in Irvine, California, he pairs classroom leadership with active open-source maintenance, demonstrating a rare mix of pedagogy and production-grade coding.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
api10
altair10
vega-lite10
python10
apidoc10
architecture8
architectures8
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vega/altair
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Declarative visualization library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 39 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher made significant contributions to the Altair library, primarily focused on updating the project to the latest Vega-Lite version. This involved modifying schema definitions, adjusting API functions, and ensuring compatibility with the new Vega-Lite features. The user also worked on the parameter definitions by updating the methods and incorporating changes from the new Vega-Lite versions, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's internal structure and its dependency on Vega-Lite. Additionally, the user addressed issues with parameter handling in multi-view charts, which involved adjusting how parameters are added to the charts and fixed the incorrect naming of arguments.
visualization-librarypythondeclarativestatisticalmatplotlib
ChristopherDavisUCI/NFL2023-Simulation
Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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