Corey Sparks
Senior Research Scientist at Coleridge
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCorey Sparks is a senior research scientist and data science leader with 15+ years translating large-scale administrative and clinical data into policy-ready insights across healthcare, education, and workforce domains. He combines deep expertise in machine learning, Bayesian inference, and causal methods with hands-on product delivery—currently leading analytics used by 400+ government analysts. A former professor and journal editor, he has built and mentored interdisciplinary teams, directed PhD students, and secured grant-funded research that applied geospatial and ML techniques to health and education outcomes. Known for pragmatic statistical consulting for nonprofits and government, he also teaches R and data science to policy researchers, reflecting a commitment to capacity building beyond pure research.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Anthropology and Demography, PhD Anthropology and Demography at Penn State UniversityMA Anthropology and Statistics, MA Anthropology and Statistics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
r-package10
rpubs9
tidymodels8
coordinates8
proj8
missing-data8
markdown8
tidyverse7
anova7
gt7
geodesy7
tidy7
census7
spatial7
geofence6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coreysparks/data
Aug 2014 - Sep 2022
Contributions:74 commits, 59 pushes in 8 years 2 months
coreysparks/Rcode
Nov 2014 - Oct 2022
I will put all of my R markdown code for my rpubs examples here. The data are in the data folder
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 77 pushes in 8 years
r-packagercoderstatsr-markdownrpubs
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