Josef Fruehwald
Assitant Professor at University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJosef Fruehwald is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky with 16 years of experience applying quantitative and statistical methods to sociolinguistics and language data. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.), he specializes in regression, Bayesian modeling, MCMC, reproducible research, and data visualization, often implementing analyses in R. His open-source contribution to ggplot2—adding a versatile stat_ellipse function supporting t- and normal-distribution ellipses and Euclidean circles—reflects a practical focus on clear, maintainable tools for visualizing data distribution and uncertainty. Josef blends corpus development and annotation experience with rigorous statistical practice, enabling insights that bridge computational methods and linguistic theory.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
statistics10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
visualization10
ggplot10
visualizations10
r10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tidyverse/ggplot2
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josef significantly contributed to the `ggplot2` repository by adding a `stat_ellipse` function. This function calculates and plots data ellipses, offering users a way to visualize data distribution and confidence intervals. The user implemented different ellipse types, including t-distribution, normal distribution, and euclidian circles, and refactored the code to enhance clarity and maintainability.
visualisationgrammar-of-graphicsggplot2grammardata-visualisation
JoFrhwld/jofrhwld.github.com
Aug 2011 - Feb 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
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