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.
12 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
epub10
testing10
string-interpolation10
tidyverse10
knitr10
thesaurus10
opcodes10
tidy10
revit-api10
pretty-print10
data-science10
unit-testing10
gitbook10
visualization10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
njtierney/naniar
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Tidy data structures, summaries, and visualisations for missing data
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 814 commits in 7 years 1 month
data-structuredata-structuresvisualizationsmissing-datadata-visualisation
njtierney/whoami
Feb 2020 - Sep 2025
Slides I use to introduce myself for workshops
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
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