Wei Tham
Staff Research Scientist at Acceleration Consortium
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Tham is a Staff Research Scientist and applied microeconomist with a decade of experience turning large-scale administrative data into policy-relevant causal insights. Trained with a PhD in Economics from The Ohio State University and seasoned at institutions such as Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science, he blends rigorous causal inference with practical data engineering and compelling visual communication. Comfortable wrestling messy datasets in R, he routinely produces reproducible analyses that inform decision-makers and peers alike. Based in Toronto, he brings academic depth together with hands-on research delivery across government, healthcare, and innovation ecosystems—often surfacing non-obvious policy implications from administrative records.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Economics, B.A., Economics at Rice UniversityO-levels, O-levels at St. Joseph's InstitutionDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at The Ohio State UniversityA-levels, A-levels at Raffles Junior College
Github Skills (60)
algolia10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
r9
missing-data9
ruler9
palette9
unconf9
github-pages9
tidymodels9
utterances9
triangular9
color-palette8
beamer8
r-language8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
weiyangtham/nih_exporter
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
weiyangtham/wytham
Feb 2018 - May 2023
My personal website!
Contributions:2 PRs, 117 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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