Hello there, I am Umair Durrani

I am a data scientist with a PhD in Civil Engineering (read Transportation Engineering). I'm passionate about reducing human error in transportation systems 🚂 ✈️ 🚊 🚗.

By day, I develop shiny apps and do data science at Presage Group. In my free time, I teach data analysis in R workshops, write blogs, and give talks.

Recent Projects

• {frstore} R package: An R package that lets you post, update, get, delete, and query Google Cloud Firestore database via {httr2}.
• A quarto blog that teaches transportation researchers how to import, transform, visualize, and analyze vehicle trajectories data in R, Python, and Julia. The posts in this blog show how to use {arrow}, {tidyverse}, pandas, polars, and Tidier.jl packages for analyzing bigger-than-memory data.

Recent Talks and Workshops

• ShinyConf 2024 talk: Road Mapping in Real-Time: Harnessing R, Python, and Shiny for Dynamic Visualization
• ShinyConf 2024 talk: Shiny app as a novel assessment tool for pilots in training
• A Mini Tour of Open-source tools for Transportation Planning & Engineering was presented to UWindsor Chapter of Institute of Transportation Engineers.
• Scaling Shiny Apps with Google’s Firebase was presented to the Windsor Google Developers Group.
• R workshop on analyzing NGSIM data

For more, see my website 🌐