Shaun Nielsen

Hello! I'm Shaun Nielsen, a Biostatistician working at NSW Health. I provide analytical and data infrastructure solutions to solve health 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.

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, plotlyJS, leaflet

Linux server

Self-hosting: this website!
Bioinformatics

SAS and SAS Enterprise Guide

Data pipelines

Where I've worked

NSW Health

Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence
2018, 2019 - current

Lancaster University, UK

The Lancaster Environmental Centre
2018 - 2019

University of NSW

Centre for Marine Bio-innovation
2013 - 2017

My education

Master of biostatistics

University of Sydney
2018 - 2022

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

University of NSW
2008 - 2013

Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)

University of NSW
2003 - 2007