Gordon Bryden
Senior Assistant Statistician
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGordon Bryden is a statistician and data scientist with nine years’ experience turning messy datasets into clear, actionable insight for public-sector decision making. As Senior Assistant Statistician at the Scottish Government he manages and delivers official statistics publications, notably leading the new Short Term Lets statistics project. He is a proficient statistical programmer in SAS, R and Python, with strengths in data visualisation and dashboarding to communicate evidence-based conclusions to non-technical stakeholders. His background in ecology and entomology informs a practical, experimental approach to data curation and novel visualisation, and he has experience applying GIS and spatial methods. Comfortable managing end-to-end analytic projects, he combines rigorous statistical practice with pragmatic presentation to influence policy and operations.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Entomology, Master of Science (MSc), Entomology at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc), Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Zoology/Animal Biology at Edinburgh University
English
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ScotGovAnalysis/opendatascot
May 2018 - Nov 2022
An R package to pull data from statistics.gov.scot into R
Contributions:347 commits, 62 PRs, 187 pushes in 4 years 6 months
rr-package
GordonBryden/opendatascot
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Access statistics.gov.scot without SPARQL
Contributions:37 PRs, 149 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 11 months
govsparqlstatisticsrdf
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