Trevor Davis
Social Science Research Scholar at Self-Employed
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Davis is a PhD economist and Social Science Research Scholar in Palo Alto with 16 years of experience applying statistical programming to energy and policy research. He is the lead developer of PESD’s Energy Market Game, a multi-thousand-line Python/R platform used worldwide to teach and simulate wholesale electricity markets, and an author of open-source R packages with over a million downloads. His work blends rigorous econometric modeling (Kalman filters, Gibbs sampling) with production-grade simulation tools, and he regularly trains regulators and classroom audiences on market design. Beyond academia, he consults on public policy simulations and has a proven track record translating complex economic models into practical software used in policy decision-making.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Statistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Statistics at University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Stanford University
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Github Skills (200)
knitr10
webextension10
vector-graphics10
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argparse10
command-line-parser10
grammar10
argument-parsing10
cran10
completions10
literate-programming10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
trevorld/r-ledger
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
Imports data from plain text accounting files
Contributions:7 releases, 141 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 1 month
r-packageaccountingplain-text-accountingimportingplain
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