Romain Lesur
Data Scientist
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
Summary
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RockstarRomain Lesur is a data scientist with a decade of experience, currently heading Data Science at INSEE and INSEEFrLab from Nantes, France. He blends statistical rigor with applied engineering, shipping production-ready analytic solutions for national-level data projects. An active open-source contributor, he has made impactful full-stack contributions to the widely used rmarkdown project—improving HTML/PDF outputs, TOC behavior, and ConTeXt support—showing attention to both reproducible research and presentation quality. Comfortable across the data pipeline, Romain pairs hands-on coding with leadership in research-driven teams. Colleagues appreciate that he bridges policy-relevant metrics and developer hygiene, ensuring outputs are both reliable and well-documented.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
5,860reputation
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Github Skills (15)
html10
rmarkdown10
markdown10
markdown-it10
pandoc10
r10
css9
knitr9
lua8
dygraphs6
blogdown6
favicon6
hugo6
bookdown6
rstudio6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rmarkdown
Apr 2019 - Dec 2019
Dynamic Documents for R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 29 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Romain contributed to the R Markdown package by implementing several fixes and enhancements related to the generation of HTML and PDF documents. This includes addressing regressions in the HTML document with the Shiny runtime, refining the table of contents functionality, and incorporating ConTeXt support. The user also updated CSS and Lua files, demonstrating a focus on improving presentation and output formats.
rr-packagermarkdownpandocmarkdown
InseeFrLab/lockdown-maps-R
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Population Movements at Spring 2020 Lockdown in France - Interactive Data Visualizations
Contributions:60 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 4 days
data-visualizationdata-visualizationsrdataviz
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