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Walker Harrison

Graduate student in statistics at Duke University. Former dev.to employee. I like to blog about data science on my Medium publication, perplex.city, and on dev.to

Location New York City Joined Joined on  Personal website https://perplex.city/ twitter website

Education

Columbia University '14, Duke University '19

Work

Quantitative Analyst

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Using Data Science for EdTech and Public Policy, with Alicia Powers
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Using Data Science for EdTech and Public Policy, with Alicia Powers

#datascience #r #career
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Working as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, with Julia Silge
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Working as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, with Julia Silge

#datascience #r #career
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Flash is dead 💀 (kind of)
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Flash is dead 💀 (kind of)

#news #webdev
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Turning a side interest in programming into a data engineering career, with Josh Laurito
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Turning a side interest in programming into a data engineering career, with Josh Laurito

#data #datascience #career #learning
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Pseudo-Random Numbers in Python: From Arithmetic to Probability Distributions
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Pseudo-Random Numbers in Python: From Arithmetic to Probability Distributions

#python #algorithms
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Github releases results from its 2017 Open Source Survey
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Github releases results from its 2017 Open Source Survey

#data #ossurvey
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What's the best software for creating flowcharts and other visuals to document application logic?
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What's the best software for creating flowcharts and other visuals to document application logic?

#discuss
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Google announces support for Kotlin on Android, now what?
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Google announces support for Kotlin on Android, now what?

#news #kotlin #android
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Stack Overflow released a new mobile app
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Stack Overflow released a new mobile app

#news #stackoverflow
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Stack Overflow just released a tool called "Trends" that tracks the popularity of programming terms over time.
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Stack Overflow just released a tool called "Trends" that tracks the popularity of programming terms over time.

#stackoverflow #data #languages
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The 500-foot Cab Ride: Using BigQuery to find out how dirty (sinister?) NYC's cab ride data is
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The 500-foot Cab Ride: Using BigQuery to find out how dirty (sinister?) NYC's cab ride data is

#bigquery #datascience #nyc #sql
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Working Smart: What performance metrics do developers value and when do they feel most productive?
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Working Smart: What performance metrics do developers value and when do they feel most productive?

#productivity #management #data #stacksurvey17
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Are developers underpaid? Many of them think so, according to recent research
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Are developers underpaid? Many of them think so, according to recent research

#datascience #career #stacksurvey17
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%$#@ This: Combing through 183 million git commits to find out when and how developers use the f-word
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%$#@ This: Combing through 183 million git commits to find out when and how developers use the f-word

#bigquery #github #datascience #git
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Using Google's BigQuery to Better Understand the Python Ecosystem
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Using Google's BigQuery to Better Understand the Python Ecosystem

#bigquery #datascience #python #github
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Two thirds of developers work remotely at least some of the time, and this number is highly correlated with job satisfaction.
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Two thirds of developers work remotely at least some of the time, and this number is highly correlated with job satisfaction.

#stacksurvey17 #data #statistics
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Bootstrapping Your Education: Vast majority of coders rely on self-teaching and online resources
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Bootstrapping Your Education: Vast majority of coders rely on self-teaching and online resources

#stacksurvey17 #data #statistics
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Javascript's Persistent Popularity: No one seems to particularly enjoy the language, but everyone is using it
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Javascript's Persistent Popularity: No one seems to particularly enjoy the language, but everyone is using it

#stacksurvey17 #data #statistics #javascript
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Diving Into the Results of the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
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Diving Into the Results of the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

#stacksurvey17 #data #statistics
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The Search for Self: How to obtain and analyze your history of Google searches
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The Search for Self: How to obtain and analyze your history of Google searches

#privacy #google #datascience #statistics
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Grid Unlock: Using a simulation in Python to demonstrate a faster way to walk
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Grid Unlock: Using a simulation in Python to demonstrate a faster way to walk

#python #datascience #statistics #dataviz
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Memorylessness at the Bus Stop: Using R on transit data to test a hypothesis
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Memorylessness at the Bus Stop: Using R on transit data to test a hypothesis

#statistics #rlang #datascience #math
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Hi, I'm Walker!
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Hi, I'm Walker!

#introductions
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