Zoe Meers
Research Manager at Tech Council of Australia
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolZoe Meers is a research manager and data scientist with nine years’ experience blending tech policy, public policy research, and data visualization across government, academia, and industry. She currently leads tech policy research at the Tech Council of Australia after roles advising the World Bank on data visualization and spending four years as a data scientist at Canva, where she engineered and open-sourced flourishcharts for notebook-based Flourish visualizations. Zoe’s background includes building widely used R packages (ggparliament, readabs) and creating interactive D3 visualizations for high-profile policy reports and journalism, evidencing a rare mix of rigorous social science training and production-grade tooling. Holding a PhD in Political Science from Princeton and a BA in Political Science and Statistics, she pairs quantitative research chops with practical engineering to translate complex policy issues into clear, actionable visual narratives.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Statistics, Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Statistics at Smith CollegeUWC Costa RicaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at Princeton University
English, French
Github Skills (86)
parliament10
r10
tidy10
r-package10
visualization10
statistics9
data-visualization9
time-series9
cli-generator8
sports-data7
mixed-models7
mps7
docstrings7
spatial6
vote6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zmeers/ggparliament
Jun 2018 - Feb 2022
Simple parliament plots using ggplot2
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 232 commits in 3 years 9 months
r-packageparliament-chartsggplot2rstatsdata-visualization
USStudiesCentre/ussc
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
A collection of scripts and functions to help with research at the United States Studies Centre.
Contributions:455 commits, 4 PRs, 426 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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