Wil Davis
Data Scientist
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWil Davis is a data scientist with 11 years of experience who blends rigorous academic training (MS in Statistics from Texas A&M) with hands-on deployment of production analytics and DevOps. He has led data-driven transformation programs that delivered multimillion-dollar savings and built forecasting, optimization, and price-elasticity models deployed as R-based microservices and Shiny apps. At Worthington he architected CI/CD, Dockerized analytics microservices, and proprietary R packages to automate forecasting and deployment, and he contributes to popular open-source R projects like shinyWidgets and sparklyr. Currently at Caterpillar, he applies time series, ML, and optimization to drive operational effectiveness while maintaining strong cross-functional stakeholder relationships. Known for translating complex models into user-facing tools, he also brings uncommon experience in lean transformation and manufacturing process improvement that sharpens model impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration: Finance, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors in Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration: Finance, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors in Business Administration at The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business
English
Stackoverflow
3,138reputation
118kreached
109answers
7questions
shiny
top-5%
r
top-5%
Github Skills (14)
shiny10
javascript10
r10
html9
front-end-development8
back-end-development7
blogdown6
rounding6
shiny-apps6
dplyr6
ggplot6
r-package6
plotly6
pipe6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dreamRs/shinyWidgets
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Wil implemented a new numeric range input widget, extending the functionality of the `shinyWidgets` library. They added the core logic for the widget, including the necessary HTML structure, JavaScript bindings for user interaction, and updates to the widget's behavior within the Shiny framework. The user also created a demo application and example code to demonstrate the usage of the new numeric range input. This involved modifying both the R code for the widget and the associated JavaScript to handle user input and updates.
htmlwidgetsshinyfomantic-uiwidgetsshinyapps
wkdavis/rmddm
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
RMarkdown template for documenting the CRISP-DM process
Contributions:3 releases, 37 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
rmarkdown-templatecrisp-dmcrispmarkdownrmarkdown
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