Welcome to my GitHub profile! Here you can find the various projects I've developed or contributed to over the years.

I have a Masters in Data Science from American University. I took an unconventional route there. Having studied history and political science in college, I entered graduate school planning to become a policy analyst. With that goal in mind, I taught myself R before classes started. Midway through my first semester, I realized I enjoyed the R programming I was doing for an assistantship more than my classes, so I made the leap to data science.

After I decided programming was my first love, I spent much of the intervening two years writing code. After getting to grips with R, I learned Python, picked up SQL and enough Bash to get by, and dabbled in Lua. I've become more proficient with pandas, the most popular Python data analysis library.

My GitHub activity gives a good overview of my interests.

* A few contributions to projects I liked (I should do more of this).
* Some [R projects](https://github.com/ryan-heslin/RegLesson) that harness the language's data manipulation capabilities.
* An [Advent of Code](https://github.com/ryan-heslin/AoC2022) repository, for practicing pure programming. 
* Inevitably, my [personal dotfiles](https://github.com/ryan-heslin/dotfiles), an ever-growing set of configuration files centered on my [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) setup.

I can also be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-heslin/. If you find anything I worked on even remotely useful, I'll be a happy man.