Jacinta Holloway-brown
Lecturer at University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolJacinta Holloway-Brown is a statistician and lecturer with eight years’ experience applying statistical and machine learning methods to satellite imagery, academic research, and official statistics. She holds a PhD in statistics and remote sensing and has translated complex methods into hands-on R workshops delivered for the United Nations in Colombia and Thailand. Her background at the Australian Bureau of Statistics spans methodology, tourism statistics and leadership of the UN Satellite Imagery task team, reflecting strong policy-facing and cross‑agency collaboration skills. She combines academic research — including international stints at Sorbonne-affiliated institutes — with practical teaching and outreach, having developed undergraduate modules and capacity-building courses for national statistical offices. An unusual blend of journalism, economics and applied statistics gives her an ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics and remote sensing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics and remote sensing at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Business(Economics)/Journalism with Distinction, Economics, Bachelor of Business(Economics)/Journalism with Distinction, Economics at Queensland University of TechnologyGraduate Diploma of Science (Applied Statistics), High Distinction, Graduate Diploma of Science (Applied Statistics), High Distinction at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (2)
data-gov1
r-package1
Github contributions (5)
thejholloway/earth-observation-workshop
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 12 pushes in 1 month
thejholloway/SS-RF_tutorial
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 4 days
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