Kyle Walker
Professor at Clearfork Intelligence
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Walker is a geographer turned spatial data scientist and R developer with 12 years of experience building open-source geospatial tools and translating them into practical solutions for academia and industry. As Professor and Department Chair at Texas Christian University and Director of the TCU Institute for Urban Innovation, he blends research-led teaching with applied urban and spatial analysis. He advises commercial real estate clients through The Linnaean Company and runs Walker Data to deliver data-driven insights, while founding Clearfork Intelligence to apply AI and automation in energy and land management. Comfortable at the intersection of research, software, and business, he is known for shipping reproducible spatial workflows and helping organizations operationalize geospatial science. An oft-overlooked strength is his bilingual undergraduate background in French, which complements international collaboration and communication in interdisciplinary projects.
13 years of coding experience
BA, Geography, French, BA, Geography, French at University of OregonUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (103)
gdal10
tidyverse10
geography10
spatial10
r10
dataframes10
shiny10
r-package10
geos10
map-box10
proj10
visualization10
leaflet10
climate-science10
bootstrap-select10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
walkerke/umich-workshop-2022
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Slides and code for Census data workshops given at the University of Michigan in 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
walkerke/pygris
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Use US Census shapefiles in Python (port of the R tigris package)
Contributions:65 commits, 9 PRs, 43 pushes in 6 months
python
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