Welcome to my GitHub profile! Here you can find the various projects I've developed or contributed to over the years.
I earned a Masters in Data Science from American University. I got there by an unconventional route. Having studied history and political science in college, I entered graduate school planning to become a policy analyst. With that goal in mind, I taught myself R before classes started, and I found an assistantship that required R programming. Midway through my first semester, I realized I enjoyed R more than my classes, so I made the leap to data science.
After deciding programming was my first love, I spent much of the intervening two years writing code. After getting to grips with R, I learned Python, picked up SQL and enough Bash to get by, and dabbled in Lua. I also became proficient in pandas, the most popular Python data analysis library.
My GitHub activity gives a good overview of my interests:
- A few contributions to projects I liked (I should do more of this).
- Some small apps I made learning the Dash framework
- Solutions for the latest edition of Advent of Code, the annual set of Christmas-themed programming challenges
- Inevitably, my personal dotfiles, an ever-growing set of configuration files centered on my Neovim setup.
I can also be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-heslin/. If you find anything I worked on even remotely useful, I'll be a happy man.