Nicholas Tierney
Statistical Consultant
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Tierney is a PhD-trained statistical consultant and research software engineer with 11 years of experience building tools that make exploratory data analysis and missing-data handling more reliable and accessible. He develops and maintains influential R packages (including visdat, naniar, brolgar and contributions to greta) and has published widely on practical data workflows, with his most-cited work focused on missing data tools. Formerly a lecturer and research engineer at Monash and Telethon Kids Institute, he blends academic rigor with production-ready software and teaching. Based in Hobart, he pairs deep statistical programming skills with a knack for developer-facing tooling and clear communication—plus an adventurous streak: he hiked the entire Pacific Crest Trail in 2023.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Psychological Science, Bachelor of Psychological Science at The University of Queensland
English, French
Github Skills (200)
ecology10
tidyverse10
cffi10
knitr10
thesaurus10
opcodes10
data-exploration10
htmlwidgets10
tidy10
linear-models10
regression-models10
data-science10
unit-testing10
gitbook10
visualization10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
goldingn/greta
Mar 2021 - May 2021
simple and scalable statistical modelling in R
Contributions:87 commits in 1 month
r-packagescalablestatisticslinear-modelsstatistical
njtierney/rjournal-brolgar
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
rjournal article for brolgar
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 11 months
javascript
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