Richard Dean
Data Scientist
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Dean is a data scientist with a decade of recent hands-on data experience and sixteen years leading IT change, specialising in public health, crime and environmental applications. He blends academic training in information systems, computer science and machine learning with practical skills in Python, data visualisation, automation and high-performance Jupyter-based workflows. Richard has led national-scale data consolidation and reporting programmes (including national statistics production and a distributed "data lake") and has a track record of translating complex, sensitive datasets into actionable insights for policy-makers. He mentors teams, builds reproducible pipelines and has presented at events such as Digital Nations 2030, reflecting a rare mix of operational delivery and horizon-scanning. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he brings deep experience in information governance and pragmatic tooling to drive measurable public-impact projects.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Information Systems Management, BSc, Information Systems Management at Durham University
Github Skills (32)
ecology9
multi-user9
jupyter-notebook8
python8
ipython8
jupyter8
jupyterhub8
bokeh7
javascript7
alpha7
visualization7
data-visualisation7
ipywidgets7
stable7
pyodide6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ESR-NZ/covid_in_wastewater
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Quantitative data about how much SARS-CoV2 virus is found in New Zealand's wastewater
Contributions:22 commits, 24 pushes in 6 months
ricdea/python-ecology-lesson
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
:page_with_curl: Data Carpentry Python lessons on ecology.
Contributions:3 branches in 1 day
pythondata-sciencedata-carpentrycurldata-visualisation
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