Tim Dennis
Director at UCLA Library Data Science Center
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Dennis is the Director of the UCLA Library Data Science Center with 14 years of experience building data services, infrastructure, and training programs that help researchers find, reuse, publish, and preserve data. He blends hands-on technical fluency in R, Python, SQL and command-line tools with strategic program design—running consulting, teaching, and platform efforts for a major research university. A long-time Carpentries instructor and trainer, he applies evidence-based teaching practices to scale data literacy across campus and the wider research community. His background in information science and human-centered design informs pragmatic service models that prioritize researcher workflows and reproducible research. Based in Los Angeles, he has a track record of translating library collections and social science data expertise into modern, usable data services.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information Science HCI Information Design, Masters Information Science HCI Information Design at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Sociology and Anthropology, Bachelor's degree Sociology and Anthropology at Millsaps College
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thehackerwithin/ucsd
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 23 pushes in 18 days
jt14den/lecture-notes-lc-intro-data-tidy
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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