# Randy Boyes (@randy.pub)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/randy.pub
Headline: Data Scientist & Epidemiologist building models of human decision-making

## About

Recently completed Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Epidemiology at Queen's University. Currently working as the Director of Analytics at Presage Group, a small GTA-based consulting company focused on projects in human decision-making in the airline industry.

## Experience

- **Director Of Analytics at Presage Group Inc.** (2021 – present)
  \- Responsible for development and implementation of analytics to provide best in class results for clients
  \- Provide advice to the Executive team on current and future tool and platform needs
  \- Provide subject matter expertise in automation, analytics, and data visualization
  \- Identify processes as candidates for automation to reduce instability and human error
  \- Support the operations and development of the analytics team to support the enterprise
- **Data Scientist at Sunnybrook** (2020 – 2021)
- **Data Scientist at University of Manitoba** (2018 – 2020)
- **Lecturer at Queen's University - School of Policy Studies** (2015 – 2019)
  I have taught MPA 805: Quantitative Analysis (Fall 2015, 2016, 2018) and MPA 806: Analytical Tools for Policy Research (Spring 2016
  \- 2019).
- **Teaching Assistant at Queen's University** (2014 – 2017)
  Teaching assistant for EPID 301 (Fall 2017), EPID 803 (Winter 2017, Fall 2014), and EPID 806 (Winter 2014). Responsibilities have included marking reports and exams, answering student questions by email and in individual and group meetings, leading tutorial sessions, and course administration.
- **Tutor at Queen's University** (2010 – 2014)
  Teaching introductory in individual meetings and in group sessions. Content of the lessons varied according to student's needs and level of understanding. Topics have included Physics, Statistics, Calculus, and Chemistry.

## Education

- **Queen's University** — Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology) (2016 – 2023)
- **Queen's University** — Master's Degree, Epidemiology (2013 – 2015)
- **Queen's University** — Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Life Sciences (2009 – 2013)
- **Capernwray Bible School** — Certificate (2007 – 2008)

## Skills

- Data Governance
- Firebase
- SQL
- Data Visualization
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Julia (Programming Language)
- Predictive Modeling
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- Survey Design
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Teaching
- Data Analysis
- Public Health
- Research
- SAS
- C++
- SPSS
- R
- LaTeX
- Data Science
- University Teaching
- Machine Learning
- Health Research
- Higher Education
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Python (Programming Language)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Academic Writing
- Health Services Research
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Deep Neural Networks (DNN)
- Data Preparation
- Statistical Modeling
- Statistics
- Interdisciplinary Research
- Academic Research

## Certifications

- Statistical Data Analysis Using SAS — SAS

## Projects

- **TidierPlots.jl** — https://github.com/TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jl
  TidierPlots is a reimplementation of R's ggplot2 in julia. While still in development, it supports many of ggplot's main features, including most geoms, scales, themes, labels, facetting, and patchwork-style grid layouts. Since Makie.jl is used to generate the plots, both fully interactive plotting for notebooks and publication-quality PDF output are supported with no change in syntax.
- **Julia for Positron** — https://github.com/TidierOrg/positron-julia
  Julia support for Posit's IDE Positron. 

## Publications

- Physical environment features that predict outdoor active play can be measured using Google Street View images — International journal of health geographics (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12942-023-00346-3)
- The Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index: proof of concept and implications for use — Journal of American College Health
- Cross-sectional trend analysis of the NCHA II survey data on Canadian post-secondary student mental health and wellbeing from 2013 to 2019 — BMC Public Health (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-021-10622-1)
- Community water fluoridation exposure and dental caries experience in newly enrolled members of the Canadian Armed Forces 2006–2017 — Canadian Journal of Public Health (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8076368/)
- A qualitative investigation of unsupervised outdoor activities for 10-to 13-year-old children:“I like adventuring but I don't like adventuring without being careful” — Journal of environmental psychology (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494420300633)
- Gender-specific associations between involvement in team sport culture and canadian adolescents’ substance-use behavior — Social Science & Medicine: Population Health (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827317301398)
- Measuring care costs of elderly patients and their family caregivers in intensive care units: Findings from the REALISTIC 80 study — Aging & Society

## Volunteering

- Intern at Africa Inland Mission International
- Firefighter at Wolfe Island Fire Department

## Honors and awards

- Team First Place — Toronto Health Hackathon

## Languages

- English (native)

## Other profiles

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboyes/
- website: https://www.randy.pub
- github: https://github.com/rdboyes