John Edwards
Assistant Director Of Data Science
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Edwards is an Assistant Director of Data Science for the Seattle Mariners with nine years of experience translating baseball data into actionable insights across scouting, pitching analytics, and front-office decision-making. Rising through roles from intern to leadership within the Mariners organization, he blends hands-on analytical modeling with product-oriented delivery for on-field and roster decisions. He contributes to baseball journalism and analytics communities, having written for outlets like The Athletic and Sporting News while maintaining a knack for clear storytelling from complex data. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Georgia Tech background in Literature, Media, and Communication with deep domain expertise in sports analytics, making him equally fluent in numbers and narrative. Colleagues describe him as professionally driven yet unafraid to be irreverent online, a combination that helps him communicate technical ideas in memorable ways.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Literature Media and Communication, Bachelor's degree Literature Media and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (47)
roster10
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sports-data10
cran10
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data-repository9
espn9
player8
rshiny8
shiny7
boosting7
scrape7
r-api6
julia6
nba-api6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
john-b-edwards/NERD-Bot
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
nflverse/NFLData.jl
Sep 2024 - Nov 2025
Read up-to-date NFL data into Julia as a DataFrame.
Contributions:14 releases, 34 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 2 months
dataframejulia
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