Shaun Nielsen

Hello! I'm Shaun Nielsen, and fall under the Data Scientist umbrella. I have worked as a Biostatistician and Data Analyst at NSW Health, and as a Bioinformatician and Researcher at the University of NSW. I provide analytical and data infrastructure solutions to solve data related problems. My career has taken me from ecological research (marine, agricultural and human gut) to data intelligence for NSW Health's COVID-19 public health response.

I enjoy using R statistical computing for data aquistion, transformation, modelling and visualisation, and mixing this with frontend web development for data interactivity.

I also just started a blog!

What I do

Data Science

Data integration and engineering
Understanding and application of Information Technology
DevOps and project managment

Applied Biostatistics

Experimental design and hypothesis testing
Generalised linear models
Statistical learning

R statistical computing and RStudio

Data pipelines
R Markdown, Flexdashboard, Shiny
Package development

Frontend web development

HTML5, CCS3, JavaScript
Data visualisation - D3, plotly, leaflet, chartjs

Linux server

Self-hosting: this website!
Bioinformatics

SAS and SAS Enterprise Guide

Data pipelines

Where I've worked

NSW Health, Australia2018, 2019-2022

Lancaster University, UK 2018 - 2019

The Lancaster Environmental Centre

University of NSW, Australia2013 - 2017

Centre for Marine Bio-innovation

My education

Master of Biostatistics

University of Sydney
2018 - 2022

NSW Health Biostatistics Training Program

NSW Health
2018 - 2021

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biological Science

University of NSW
2008 - 2013

Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)

University of NSW
2003 - 2007