About me

       

Physicist turned investment banker turned academic researcher.

Mission: software and practices that promote reproducibility, reusability and efficiency in academic research

Currently: Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, using microsimulation and agent-based models to investigate the interaction between Police resourcing (supply) and crime (demand).

Selected open-source projects

• neworder: a high-performance framework for dynamic microsimulation models
• humanleague: a microsynthesis package using quasirandom sampling and iterative propotional fitting (IPF)
• ukcensusapi: UK Census Data queries and downloads from python or R
• ukpopulation: download, cache, collate, filter, manipulate and extrapolate UK population and household estimates/projections

Qualifications

Publications

Top tip, Viz, c.2002