I'm Ford Higgins, a data enthusiast who loves sports, the environment, and putting quality data in the hands of decision makers - especially if that decision maker is me! I enjoy making flexible and scalable tooling to ease the repetitive tasks of both personal and professional life.
- 🔭 I’m currently working on ...
- Ottoneu Basketball Values and associated analyses.
- NBA Trades Constructor - an app for generating all possible 2 team NBA trades for a given input of players. Currently in proof-of-concept stage.
- Automating my DRE app to be in Python and on Streamlit instead of R / Shiny and updated daily.
- Updating the Sleeper API Python package to use more best practices.
- 🌱 I’m currently learning ...
- Advanced Streamlit!
- FastAPI and web development
- What's missing from a CS degree with MIT's missing semester class.
- I have worked on ...
- pybaseball: Contributing to an open source Python library for baseball.
- Her Hoop Stats: Contributing on the back end for developing new statistics and features for the website as well as an model predicting the MVP winner.
- My suite of fantasy football tools.
- Ottoneu Auctions: An Ottoneu tool for gathering data on active auctions for my leagues, built with Python and GitHub Actions and Pages.
- 📫 How to reach me: Bluesky
- 😄 Pronouns: he / him / his
- Python, SQL (PostgreSQL, Redshift, MySQL, Snowflake), dbt, R, zsh, git, LookML
- Looker, Databricks, Snowflake, Periscope, Jupyter Notebooks, GitHub, Airflow, vim, Google APIs