Jose MacIas
R Programming Graduate Instructor @Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
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WORK HISTORY
R Programming Graduate Instructor @Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, US
Crafted a new programming curriculum tailored for working professionals, focused on the practical application of programming in public policy, to launch the Policy Analytics Credential for the Harris Credential Department. Recorded 15 lectures covering Base R, Tidyverse applications, and APIs for spatial analysis. Additionally, designed two data exploration workshops for students to analyze crime across nine major U.S. cities using Leaflet.Designed instructional materials including PowerPoint presentations, R Scripts, and R Markdown files, to educate over 110 students in a custom Harris Credential program tailored for a corporate client in the Middle EastLectured on various R programming topics, covering the foundations of Base R, data wrangling and manipulation with Tidyverse, report creation using Markdown and Quarto, programmatic concepts with for and while loops, data visualization with ggplot2, and practical applications of linear regression including bivariate, multivariate, and an introduction to panel regression/fixed effects.
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles
Big Data for Justice Summer Institute
Fullerton College
Associate of Arts - AA
University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
International Relations and Affairs
Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Master of Public Policy - MPP
Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
Data & Policy Summer Scholar Program
ABOUT JOSE MACIAS
Jose M. Macias is an Associate Data Fellow and founding member of the Futures Lab inside the CSIS Defense and Security Department. Prior to and while at CSIS, he earned his Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree with a focus on data analytics and served as a Pearson Fellow at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.If you’d like to connect with me, kindly include a message reminding me of where and how we met or if you’d like to discuss a recent report or article, please note it. Happy to connect with referrals from CHCI or the Harris School.
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