Jeff Sauer
Research Scientist at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Sauer is a research scientist and spatial data scientist with eight years of experience applying spatial statistics, GIS, and epidemiology to public health and environmental problems. Currently supporting NYC’s drug checking program, he blends PhD-level geographic information science with hands-on data engineering and statistical programming in R, Python, SQL, and cloud platforms. His work spans algorithm development for large sensor and remote-sensing datasets, reproducible GDS workflows, and publication-quality evidence synthesis on health inequalities and the U.S. opioid epidemic. A persistent open-source contributor to spatial tools (including PySAL) and a former builder of production geospatial algorithms, he pairs academic rigor from UMD and LSHTM with practical program delivery in city and startup settings. Notably, he has processed terabyte-scale movement and administrative health data and built multilevel analytical pipelines that bridge policy-facing reports and reproducible research.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Epidemiology, Master of Science (MSc) Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing at University of MarylandBachelor's degree Geography (Honours thesis-based), Bachelor's degree Geography (Honours thesis-based) at McGill University
English
Github Skills (137)
weighting10
r9
hugo-theme9
spatial9
hierarchical9
netlify9
r-package9
missing-data9
twitter-api9
rmarkdown9
maps8
instagram-api8
resampling8
twitter8
forestry8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jeffcsauer/arcospy
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Github repository for arcospy module, the python equivalent of the R acros package.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 3 years
jeffcsauer/twarc-v2-tutorials
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Example tutorials for twarc v2
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
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