James Whiting
Ecological Data Analyst
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Whiting is an ecological data analyst with eight years’ experience applying ecological statistics, GIS, and genomics to real-world biodiversity questions, currently working at NatureMetrics in Sheffield. He combines deep population and ecological genetics expertise with production-grade data analysis and visualization skills, including R package development used in academic projects. His postdoctoral work in Calgary and Exeter focused on repeatable adaptation and whole-genome analyses across plants and guppies, producing fieldwork-informed genomics and contributing to multiple publications and a new long-read genome assembly. Comfortable moving between bioinformatics pipelines, spatial analysis (R/Python), and clear science communication, he also brings uncommon experience translating research for public audiences from a Royal Institution media internship.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecological Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecological Genetics at University of NottinghamMaster of Biological Sciences (MBiolSci), Zoology, First Class, Master of Biological Sciences (MBiolSci), Zoology, First Class at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (16)
population-genetics9
rcpp9
nmf8
genomics8
visualization7
biodiversity2
calculation2
meta-analysis2
ecology2
ncbi2
guppy2
statistics1
sbml1
taxonomy1
genome1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JimWhiting91/genotype_plot
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
A set of functions to visualise genotypes based on a VCF
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 60 commits in 1 year 4 months
genotypesvcfvisualization
JimWhiting91/afvaper
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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