Hello there! 👋

My name is Jeff Sauer (he/him) and I am a quantitative modeler, spatial data scientist, and researcher. Outside of work I am an avid reader and fan of nature walks. Most recent book suggestion: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li. 📘

Links to: LinkedIn, Google Scholar

Feel free to email me at: jcsauer@terpmail.umd.edu 📧

Projects

• 🚀 arcospy: a python translation of the R arcos package to access the massive DEA ARCOS dataset from 2006 to 2012. Available via PyPI! Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) paper describing implementation.
• 💻 Google Summer of Code 2020 - Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL): link to my implementation of several spatial statistics (Local spatial heteroskedasticity, Multi/bivariate local join counts, Local Geary statistics) for one of the largest python spatial analysis libraries.
• 🌐 COVID-19 Tracker made alongside fellow CGIS teammates: made in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Assisted in gathering, scraping, and cleaning data. Team: Junchuan Fan, Hai Lan, Yao Li, Jeff Sauer, Zhiyue Xia, and Guimin Zhu.
• 🐦 Twitter project upcoming!
• ✨ A few secret projects to come... ✨