Elizabeth Wickes
Lecturer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolElizabeth Wickes is a lecturer at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences with 11 years of experience teaching programming for data, data curation, and technical instruction for library and information science students. She combines classroom teaching with hands-on curation and programming work—having built metadata look-up tools with Python and managed repository submissions at Oxford—bringing practical data management workflows into her courses. Her background includes roles at Wolfram|Alpha where she formalized curation procedures and metrics, and as a data curation specialist supporting research data services. Known to colleagues as an "oddball dataist," she emphasizes reproducible, documented pipelines and career-path clarity for MSLIS and MSIM students.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignContinuing education, Continuing education at Parkland CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Sociology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Sociology at Illinois State University
English
Github Skills (75)
python10
alpha10
spanish10
stable10
bare10
imageio10
scikit-image10
computer-vision9
image-processing9
profiling9
data-cleaning9
bookdown9
skimage9
spring9
jupyter9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elliewix/github-training-brain-dumps
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
LibraryCarpentry/lc-python-intro
Jun 2017 - May 2019
Python Intro for Libraries
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years
pythonpython-introenglishcarpentrieslibrary-carpentry
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