Sean Murray
Editorial Developer at Aftenposten
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Murray is an editorial developer and data scientist based in Oslo with eight years’ experience blending journalism, statistics, and applied machine learning. He builds reproducible data science workflows and newsroom tools at Aftenposten using Python and R, drawing on deep-learning experience from research roles in medical and marine image analysis. Comfortable with the full data stack—from exploratory analysis and predictive modelling (XGBoost/CatBoost, Scikit-Learn) to production-facing tooling and interactive apps—he champions best practices in version control, linting and reproducibility. His background in photojournalism and media science gives him a rare ability to translate complex models into clear, visual storytelling for editorial contexts. Academically strong (MSc in Statistics, GPA 4.83/5) and a frequent speaker and educator, he also contributes to internal competency building on probabilistic modelling and Python workflows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Photojournalism, Bachelor, Photojournalism at University College of OsloMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics (Data Analysis), GPA: 4.83 / 5.0, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics (Data Analysis), GPA: 4.83 / 5.0 at University of Bergen (UiB)Bachelor, Media Science, Bachelor, Media Science at University of Bergen
English, Norwegian
Github Skills (19)
r-package9
dataframe8
r7
pydata7
data-cleaning6
python6
pandas6
xelatex5
visualization4
data-engineering4
ord4
multicore4
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cli4
data-science2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smu095/presentations
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
A repository for public and work-related presentations.
Contributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
ordmulticore
smu095/tutorials
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
A resource for gathering notes about different topics relating to data science.
Contributions:57 commits, 5 PRs, 85 pushes in 6 months
data-science
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