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- 3414 Snedecor Hall, Department of Statistics
- Iowa State University, Ames IA 50014
- Email: cpsievert1 at gmail dot com
- Twitter: @cpsievert
- Github: http://github.com/cpsievert
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Iowa State University (Expected 2016)
- Lecturer/TA, Iowa State University Aug. 2011 - Present
- Instructor for the online version of 'Intro to Business Statistics' (since Summer 2014).
- Course instructor for Intro to Business Statistics. (Since Fall 2012)
- Teaching Assistant for Statistical Methods for Research Workers. (Summer 2012)
- Grading supervisor for Intro to Business Statistics. (Fall 2011 & Spring 2012)
- Student, Google Summer of Code Summer 2014
- Added many features to animint as part of the Google Summer of Code program. animint is an R package for creating web-based interactive graphics and animations using ggplot2's grammar of graphics implementation.
- Intern, Statistics Research Department at AT&T Labs Summer 2013
- Authored the R package LDAvis with Kenny Shirley.
- Data Analyst, Hardwick-Day Inc. Nov. 2010 - Nov. 2011
- Developed an algorithm for the company's web-based Net Price Calculators (projected to generate over $3M in new revenue over five years).
- Carson Sievert (2014). Taming PITCHf/x Data with pitchRx and XML2R. The R Journal. 6(1).
- Carson Sievert and Kenny Shirley (2014). LDAvis: A Method for Visualizing and Interpreting Topics. Workshop on Interactive Language Learning, Visualization, and Interfaces at the Association for Computational Linguistics. Baltimore, Maryland, 2014.
- Author of the R packages pitchRx, XML2R, bbscrapeR, & LDAvis. My favorite R packages include ggplot2, plyr, shiny, knitr, and devtools.
- Other Stuff:
- LaTeX, Markdown, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, D3js, XML, SQL, Excel, git, AWK, grep.
- Operating Systems:
- Mac OS X (50%), Unix/Linux (40%), Windows (10%).
- Reproducible web documents with R, knitr & Markdown, ISU Graphics Working Group (Slides. November, 2013.
- An interactive visualization platform for interpreting topic models, ISU Graphics Working Group (Slides and Video). August, 2013.
- pitchRx: Tools for Collecting and Analyzing Major League Baseball PITCHf/x Data Joint Statistical Meetings (Slides). Montreal, Canada. August, 2013.
- Getting Started with Shiny, ISU Graphics Working Group (Slides). January, 2013.
- Play for Pay: the Effects of 'Walk Year' Performance on MLB Free Agent Contracts, Scholarship Day. St. Joseph, MN. 04/2010.
- A Mathematical Perspective of Voting, Pi Mu Epsilon's National Conference at MathFest. Portland, OR. 08/2009.
- An Application of Auction Theory to the MLB Free Agent Market, with Zhishan Guo. Mathematical Association of America's MathFest. Madison, WI. 08/2008.
- Invited member of the National Mathematics Honor Society - Pi Mu Epsilon
- Invited member of the Economics Honor Society - Omicron Kappa Sigma
- President's scholar and Dean's List recipient
- Member of the American Statistical Association
- STATcom consultant
- STATers First-Year Representative