Ruth Buck
Graduate Student
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuth Buck is a PhD candidate in Geography at Penn State with eight years of experience applying GIS, spatial data science, and computational methods to redistricting, education policy, and voting rights. She blends academic research on school and neighborhood boundary politics with hands-on technical work from her time at the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group and the Voting Rights Data Institute, where she digitized precinct maps and implemented Markov chain Monte Carlo ensembles for redistricting. Her background includes remote sensing and social vulnerability analysis for NASA projects, reflecting a knack for combining demographic and biophysical data. Ruth’s work sits at the intersection of rigorous spatial analysis and civic impact, and she brings both teaching and applied research experience to complex policy challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at Penn State UniversityBachelor's degree, Geography, Bachelor's degree, Geography at Macalester College
Github Skills (9)
lit-html7
shapefile7
r5
drawing5
gis4
python4
react3
geospatial3
mcmc2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mggg-states/OH-shapefiles
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Ohio precinct shapefile with 2016 election results
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
shapefile
RKBuck1/RKBuck1.github.io
Jun 2019 - May 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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