Rex Parsons
Senior Data Scientist
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRex Parsons is a Senior Data Scientist based in Queensland with six years of applied analytics experience focused on healthcare and medical statistics. He combines a strong academic foundation—a PhD in Statistics and a Masters in Medical Statistics—with hands-on experience building analytical pipelines, R packages, and interactive Shiny apps since 2018. Rex has worked across academia, industry, and government (including QUT, Ellume, Health Policy Analysis and a contract at the Australian Digital Health Agency), translating complex clinical data into actionable insights. He currently splits his time between a senior role at Nous Group and a visiting fellowship at QUT, maintaining active research ties through casual appointments with health institutes. Comfortable taking projects from reproducible analysis to deployable tools, he emphasizes rigorous, reproducible workflows and open sharing of code via his GitHub and personal site. An understated strength is his ability to bridge statistical theory and practical software engineering—packaging methods into user-facing tools that clinicians and policymakers can use.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)BSc (Major in Biomedical Sciences) with Honours (Neuroscience), BSc (Major in Biomedical Sciences) with Honours (Neuroscience) at The University of QueenslandMasters of Medical Statistics, Masters of Medical Statistics at University of Newcastle
Github Skills (24)
ropensci8
glmmtmb8
r8
r-package8
mapbox-gl-js7
software-quality7
maplibre-gl6
js6
data-model5
journal4
pipe4
package4
static-html4
jekyll-theme3
creative-commons3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RWParsons/circacompare
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 115 commits in 3 years 3 months
healthpolicyanalysis/hpa.spatial
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 releases, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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