Michael Clawar
SVP, Innovation (Data & Analytics)
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Clawar is an innovation-focused data and analytics leader with a decade of experience building predictive platforms and productizing data science for commercial real estate. As SVP, Innovation (Data & Analytics) at Altus Group and co-founder of StratoDem Analytics, he has led the development of high-resolution demographic and economic models used by REITs, funds, and operators to make faster, better investment and development decisions. He combines hands-on full‑stack contributions to open-source projects like Plotly Dash—improving frontend performance and routing behavior—with strategic product leadership that scales analytics into enterprise offerings. Trained in statistics and mathematics at Boston University, he blends rigorous modeling with product sensibility and a track record of turning acquired startups into operational business units. Notably, his work often focuses on squeezing actionable, local-level insight from large public datasets to unlock new real estate investment opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Statistics, Master’s Degree Statistics at Boston University
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
prop10
web-application10
webapp10
dashjs10
gui-framework10
react10
props10
python9
plotly-dash9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/dash-core-components
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
OBSOLETE: now part of https://github.com/plotly/dash
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 35 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `dash-core-components` repository by modifying the `Location.react.js` file and adding tests for URL manipulation using the Location component. The changes involved updating the component to handle pathname, hash, search, and href collectively, as well as refactoring the code to improve performance. They also added new test cases to ensure the correct functionality of the `Location` and `Link` components.
dashpythonplotly-dashplotlydata-visualization
plotly/dash
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the frontend of the Dash application. They updated the gitignore, added package-lock.json, and refactored the store to optimize the production build by removing unnecessary logging. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase by converting PropTypes imports and bumping the version. They also added the capability to set the React version dynamically, which enhanced the Dash application's flexibility.
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