Graham Stark
Owner at virtual worlds research
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGraham Stark is an experienced research-driven owner of Virtual Worlds Research with over 12 years in technology and a long career in applied economics and public policy research. Based in Milton Keynes and originally trained in economics at the University of Aberdeen, he brings deep analytical rigour from two decades at the Institute for Fiscal Studies into his current work bridging research, education and virtual environments. He has taught as an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, blending academic communication with practical project delivery. Comfortable moving between research, teaching and entrepreneurial activity, he combines a scholar’s attention to detail with hands-on ownership of niche virtual-world projects. An understated but persistent contributor to his fields, he pairs historical policy insight with contemporary digital experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Economics, MA, Economics at University of AberdeenCumbernauld High School
Github Skills (39)
simulation-modeling9
economics9
inequality9
julia9
tax9
sidekick8
simulations7
linear-models7
mixed-models7
syntax-highlighting7
highlighting7
science6
statistical-models6
bootstrap6
project-management6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grahamstark/wales_social_care
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 8 months
grahamstark/SurveyDataWeighting.jl
May 2020 - Aug 2022
reweighting survey data so that it sums to some target totals.
Contributions:10 releases, 44 commits, 57 pushes in 2 years 2 months
economic-dataeconomics-modelsmicrosimulationsurvey-data
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