Keith Hughitt
Postdoctoral Fellow at National Cancer Institute (NCI)
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Hughitt is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute with 18 years of experience at the intersection of scientific software, data visualization, and computational biology. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland and previously built widely adopted solar physics tools at NASA/GSFC—most notably Helioviewer.org and co-founding SunPy, now a NumFOCUS-sponsored project. His contributions to open-source data tooling include improving plotting utilities in pandas, reflecting a focus on making complex scientific data more accessible and usable. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines domain expertise in bioinformatics and genomics with a proven track record of delivering scalable, user-focused scientific software.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
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pandas10
python10
data-science10
data-analysis10
matplotlib9
r9
rmarkdown9
knitr6
markdown6
shiny6
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dplyr6
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Github contributions (5)
pandas-dev/pandas
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:11 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to the plotting functionalities within the pandas library. Their work focused on enhancing the `parallel_coordinates` plot by adding the ability to specify colors, using either a list or a tuple. They expanded the functionality to include support for xticks and made improvements to the docstring, which indicates a focus on improving the usability and versatility of the plotting module.
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
iscb-dc-rsg/2016-summer-workshop
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 month
student-groupsummerregionalworkshop
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