Kyle Walker
Professor at Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Walker is a geographer turned spatial data scientist and R developer with 12 years of experience building open-source geospatial tools and translating them into practical solutions for academia and industry. As Professor and Department Chair at Texas Christian University and Director of the TCU Institute for Urban Innovation, he blends research-led teaching with applied urban and spatial analysis. He advises commercial real estate clients through The Linnaean Company and runs Walker Data to deliver data-driven insights, while founding Clearfork Intelligence to apply AI and automation in energy and land management. Comfortable at the intersection of research, software, and business, he is known for shipping reproducible spatial workflows and helping organizations operationalize geospatial science. An oft-overlooked strength is his bilingual undergraduate background in French, which complements international collaboration and communication in interdisciplinary projects.
12 years of coding experience
BA, Geography, French, BA, Geography, French at University of OregonUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (129)
tidyverse10
geography10
spatial10
geopandas10
htmlwidgets10
sports-data10
tidy10
dplyr10
census-data10
shapefile10
missing-data10
r-package10
census10
crc10
geos10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
walkerke/education_map
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
walkerke/crsuggest
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Get appropriate CRS suggestions for your spatial data in R
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 5 months
r-packagesuggestionscrsspatialspatial-data
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