William Thyer
Senior Data Scientist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Thyer is a Senior Data Scientist based in Chicago with a PhD in Integrative Neuroscience from the University of Chicago and six years of experience translating research-grade analytics into production ML systems for healthcare. At Cohere Health he has owned and scaled 21 production models that drove thousands of auto-approvals, saved substantial operational costs, and cut patient wait times, while building monitoring pipelines that combine Airflow, PySpark, Slack alerts and executive dashboards. He’s hands-on across the stack—Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, and AWS—and blends product analytics, data engineering, and statistical rigor to launch high-impact initiatives. His background in neuroscience research yielded open-source tools and multi-modal data pipelines adopted by other labs, reflecting a knack for turning complex experimental workflows into reusable, production-ready systems. Colleagues rely on him for cross-functional coordination and clear data governance, and he prefers remote-first collaboration that emphasizes transparency and measurable business impact.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology | Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Psychology | Statistics at Florida State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Neuroscience | Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Integrative Neuroscience | Psychology at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (37)
networkx10
transport9
artifact9
overpass-api9
mapping-tools9
spatial-data9
spatial-analysis9
geopandas9
statistics9
eeglab9
geography9
osmnx9
gis9
urban-planning9
spatial9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WilliamThyer/williamthyer.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Personal website for William Thyer. Using Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:2 PRs, 281 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
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WilliamThyer/CityMapper
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Using OSMnx and OpenStreetMap in Python to visualize and quantify bikeability of cities.
Contributions:127 commits, 2 PRs, 93 pushes in 10 months
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