David Keyes
Founder at Clarity Data Studio
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Keyes is a founder and data communicator based in Portland, Oregon, with eight years of experience helping organizations and individuals harness R for analysis, reporting, and visualization. He runs R for the Rest of Us, delivering public workshops, online courses, and tailored trainings that demystify powerful open-source tools and make data skills accessible. Previously he combined research, teaching, and product-building—co-founding Growing Upwards, teaching sociology and research methods, and leading evaluation projects for foundations—bringing a rare mix of academic rigor and practical instruction. His work emphasizes storytelling with data, turning complex research into clear, actionable visualizations for maximum impact. An unexpected strength is his background in early childhood education and on-the-ground field research, which informs a human-centered approach to training and design. He now also leads Clarity Data Studio to help organizations communicate more effectively with their data.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoM.Ed, Early Childhood Education, M.Ed, Early Childhood Education at The Ohio State UniversityB.A, Human Development and Social Relations, B.A, Human Development and Social Relations at Earlham College
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (43)
visualization10
r-package10
r10
statistics10
data-science9
data-visualization9
pagedown8
r-programming7
unconf6
shiny6
javascript6
tidyverse5
spss5
knitr4
stata4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rfortherestofus/r-without-statistics
Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
R Without Statistics Book
Contributions:417 commits, 65 PRs, 593 pushes in 1 year 1 month
r-packagestatisticsrstatsr-programming
dgkeyes/resources
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 176 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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