Jared Knowles
President at Civilytics Consulting LLC
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJared Knowles is the president and founder of Civilytics Consulting with 14 years of experience applying statistical computing, machine learning, and multilevel modeling to public policy and education. He built the Wisconsin Dropout Early Warning System while at the Department of Public Instruction, translating predictive analytics into tools used statewide and presenting findings to agency leaders and legislators. A PhD in political science from UW–Madison and an evangelist for R, he trains practitioners in data analysis and embeds reproducible analytics into decision-making. He also contributes to open-source R tooling—improving tests for the widely used caret package’s confusionMatrix—underscoring his focus on rigorous, reliable methods. Outside work he’s an avid photographer on a quest to visit every state capitol, reflecting a curiosity for place and public institutions.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A., Politics and Government, German Studies, B.A., Politics and Government, German Studies at Pacific University
English, German
Stackoverflow
479reputation
68kreached
12answers
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
tdd10
r10
testing10
lme46
statistics6
random-effects6
mixed-models6
dplyr6
ggplot6
predict6
compilation6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
topepo/caret
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
caret (Classification And Regression Training) R package that contains misc functions for training and plotting classification and regression models
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on improving the quality of the `caret` R package by adding and modifying unit tests for the `confusionMatrix` function. Their contributions include writing new test cases, covering different scenarios, and fixing existing tests to ensure the function behaves as expected. The changes involved adjustments to test conditions, handling of edge cases, and verifying the correctness of the confusion matrix calculations. These contributions enhanced the reliability and robustness of the package by identifying and addressing potential issues in the core functionality.
r-packagecaretstatisticsregressionregression-models
jknowles/caretEnsemble
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Ensemble
Contributions:14 commits, 23 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 4 months
ensemble
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