Nicholas Malizia
Senior Director, Remote Sensing & Data Inference
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Malizia is a Senior Director of Remote Sensing & Data Inference in Boston with 15 years of experience turning spatial data into actionable business insight. He blends deep academic training (Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography) with hands-on work in remote sensing, data inference, and spatial statistics to help organizations make sound, data-driven decisions. Nicholas enjoys digging into data provenance and visualization to reveal what the numbers truly mean and how best to act on them. He contributes to open-source spatial tools—helping enhance PySAL’s space-time interaction tests—which signals both technical rigor and a commitment to reproducible spatial analysis. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade methods and product-ready solutions that scale across commercial applications.
15 years of coding experience
B.A., Geography, B.A., Geography at Clark UniversityPh.D., Geography, Ph.D., Geography at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (13)
spatial-analysis10
python10
doctest10
numpy10
statistics9
testing8
algorithm6
pandas6
partitioning6
apache6
matplotlib6
dynamic-programming6
cgi6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pysal/pysal
Jul 2010 - Jan 2012
PySAL: Python Spatial Analysis Library Meta-Package
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:44 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the development and testing of spatial statistics methods within the PySAL library. Their work involved implementing and refining tests for space-time interaction, including the Knox, Mantel, and Jacquez tests, as well as a modified Knox test. They added example data, improved code readability, and incorporated doctests for better documentation and usability, indicating a focus on expanding the library's capabilities in spatial analysis.
meta-packagepythonspatial-analysispysalspatial
nmalizia/resume
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:9 pushes in 4 years
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