Ott Toomet
Lecturer at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolOtt Toomet is a computational social scientist and lecturer with 21 years of experience applying data science to socioeconomic questions, especially social networks and ethnic/racial contact dynamics. Based in Seattle and trained as an economist (PhD, Aarhus), he combines expertise in R, HPC, and statistical modeling with hands-on work on cellphone and Twitter data to study segregation, violence’s impact on business, and emergency communication. He has developed widely used R packages and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in economic theory, statistics, and programming. Known for translating large-scale, messy digital traces into causal insights, he often bridges academic research and practical policy-relevant applications.
21 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at Aarhus UniversityMSc, Physics, Economics, MSc, Physics, Economics at University of Tartu
Stackoverflow
1,944reputation
89kreached
77answers
19questions
Github Skills (182)
cran10
parser10
marker10
ubuntu10
data-transformation10
knitr10
sailfishos10
literate-programming10
game-development10
pdf-annotation10
game-engine10
r10
pdf-viewer10
dplyr10
wacom10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
otoomet/games
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
various small games
Contributions:45 pushes, 46 branches in 1 year
crosswordgamegamesfmiazerothcore
otoomet/R-lookup-tables
Dec 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:82 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 10 months
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