NICK STRAYER
I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25
terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.
Currently searching for a position that allows me to build tools leveraging a combination of visual-
ization, machine learning, and software engineering to help people explore and understand their
data in new and useful ways.
EDUCATION
2020 PhD. Candidate, Biostatistics
| Nashville, TN
2015
Vanderbilt University
CONTACT
• Working on Bayesian network models & interactive visualization platforms
• University Graduate Fellow
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NicholasStrayer
2015 B.S., Mathematics, Statistics (minor C.S.) [Link]/nstrayer
| University of Vermont Burlington, VT
[Link]
2011
• Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
LANGUAGE SKILLS
SELECTED POSITIONS
R
2020 Graduate Research Assistant Javascript ([Link])
| TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab) Vanderbilt University
2015 C++
• Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
Python
• Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant
patterns in data. Bash
2018 Data Science Researcher SQL
| Data Science Lab Johns Hopkins University
AWK
2017
• Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
• Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).
OPEN SOURCE
2016 Data Journalist - Graphics Department CONTRIBUTIONS
New York Times New York, New York
All projects available at
• Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport. [Link]/nstrayer/<name>
• Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
shinysense: R package to
use sensor data in Shiny
SELECTED WRITING apps
tuftesque: Hugo theme
2019 Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb (behind
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.-
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com)
• Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data. sbmR: R package for tting
• Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk. stochasitic block models
• Reached top of HackerNews.
2017 The Traveling Metallurgist MORE INFO
[Link] See full CV at
• Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated [Link]/cv for more
annealing. complete list of positions and
publications.
• Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the
algorithm.
2016 The Great Student Migration Made w/ pagedown.
The New York Times Source code:
• Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.
[Link]/nstrayer/cv.
Last updated on 2020-02-11.
