Jonathan Taylor
Professor at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Taylor is a Professor based in Palo Alto with 20 years of experience at the intersection of academic research and hands-on software engineering. He brings deep expertise in scientific Python ecosystems, contributing substantive back-end work to high-profile open-source projects like IPython and Jupyter nbconvert and advancing statistical modeling in statsmodels. His contributions show a knack for tackling low-level conversion and integration issues (display handlers, recursion bugs) as well as implementing and testing complex language magics and model-fitting code. Comfortable moving between research-grade numerical methods and production-quality tooling, he combines rigorous statistical insight with practical software craftsmanship.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (25)
data-conversion10
python10
statistics10
ipython10
econometrics10
numpy10
regression-models10
nbconvert10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyter9
testing9
data-structure9
algorithm9
json9
notebook9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
statsmodels/statsmodels
Mar 2006 - Apr 2009
Statsmodels: statistical modeling and econometrics in Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:134 commits, 6 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed significantly to the `statsmodels/statsmodels` repository, focusing on statistical modeling and econometrics in Python. Their work primarily involved implementing and refining statistical models, as evidenced by code changes in the `formula.py`, `regression.py`, `nlsmodel.py` and `rft.py` files. The user added new functionality, improved existing code, and addressed issues related to model fitting and output, highlighting their expertise in statistical analysis and numerical computation.
forecastingpythonregression-modelsstatsmodelsstatistics
ipython/ipython
May 2012 - Jun 2012
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the IPython project, focusing on the rmagic extension. Their commits involved fixing docstrings, debugging instantiation issues, and reworking documentation. They also made changes to the core rmagic functionality, including modifications to the %R line and cell magics, and the R converter. Furthermore, the user added tests for both line and cell magics, and expanded on the code examples in the notebook.
documentation-websitepythondata-sciencebuildsnotebook
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