Quentin Read
Area Statistician, SEA (Southeast Area)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolQuentin Read is an applied statistician with 11 years of experience translating large environmental datasets into actionable insight, currently serving as Area Statistician for the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Raleigh. He blends a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with hands-on data science from roles at SESYNC and Michigan State to build models that reveal how human systems drive ecological outcomes, including work quantifying the environmental impacts of food waste. Quentin is skilled at end-to-end data workflows—processing, managing, and fitting complex models for interdisciplinary teams—and often works at the intersection of policy-relevant research and reproducible analysis. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic thinker who pairs ecological domain knowledge with rigorous statistical methods to deliver practical solutions for land and resource management.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (196)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
qdread/nasabio
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:410 commits, 333 pushes in 2 years 10 months
qdread/virtualland
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Analysis for project on virtual land flows in USA food trade
Contributions:6 PRs, 234 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
stock-marketpythonflowsfoodtrade
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