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wzbillings/README.md

(W.) Zane Billings

https://wzbillings.com @wzbillings@fediscience.org Linkedin: wzbillings GitHub: wzbillings ORCid Email

About me

  • I'm currently a PhD student at the University of Georgia. I work on flu epidemiology and immunology, supervised by Andreas Handel.
  • I'm a computational epidemiologist. My official degree name is "Epidemiology & Biostatistics with an emphasis in Data Analysis and Modeling". My primary interests are bayesian hierarchical models and influenza immunology.
  • Outside of work, I like reading fantasy and horror novels (AKA stats books); some video games; cooking and/or baking; and occasionally hiking.

Skills, etc.

: ggplot2, tidyverse, tidymodels, data.table, lme4, nlme, brms

: PyTorch, matplotlib, statsmodels, scikit-learn

  • Tech stuff: Stan, LaTeX, spreadsheets, Quarto (and R Markdown)
  • Stats stuff: mixed-effects linear (regression) models, machine learning / predictive analytics, data visualization, exploratory data analysis, data cleaning and wrangling, statistical inference, Bayesian methods.

Highlighted work

If you want to see some of my projects, see my pinned posts below!

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  1. quarto-website quarto-website Public

    My personal website and blog!

    HTML

  2. UGA-IDD/SISMID-2024 UGA-IDD/SISMID-2024 Public

    Website for SISMID 2024 "Intro to R" module content

    HTML

  3. ahgroup/Patient-vs-Clinician-Symptom-Reports ahgroup/Patient-vs-Clinician-Symptom-Reports Public archive

    Code to accompany "Use of Patient-Reported Symptom Data in Clinical Decision Rules for Predicting Influenza in a Telemedicine Setting" by Billings et al, JABFM 2023

    R

  4. ahgroup/Billings-2024-HD-Heterologous ahgroup/Billings-2024-HD-Heterologous Public

    Code and data associated with Billings et al., "High dose inactivated influenza vaccine inconsistently improves heterologous antibody responses in an elderly human cohort", in preparation.

    TeX

  5. Censored-Data-Tutorials Censored-Data-Tutorials Public

    Handelgroup repo for all our code and maybe manuscript on dealing with censored variables in Bayesian models.

    HTML 1

  6. SAS-Grain-Prices SAS-Grain-Prices Public archive

    Final project for BIOS 7400 with Xiao Song at the University of Georgia (USA), Spring 2022. Simple analysis in SAS v9.4 of grain price trends.

    SAS