Kyle Ward

Senior Data Scientist

Caliper Corporation

Biography

Kyle Ward is a Senior Data Scientist at Caliper Corporation, which develops GIS software for travel demand modeling, redistricting, and accessibility analysis. His interests include large-scale microsimulation, building APIs in new software languages, and applying machine learning to solve problems.

Interests

Data Science
Machine Learning
Travel Modeling

Education

M.S. Civil Engineering, 2015
NC State University
B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2007
NC State University
Minor Statistics, 2007
NC State University

Recent Posts

COVID-19 Trends and Insights

The motivations for this post are simple: There is a wealth of data on the COVID-19 pandemic. That data is misrepresented on a daily …

Jun 27, 2020 Health

EVAAS Deep Dive

Intro In my article on choosing a school in Wake County, I used EVAAS growth scores along with EOGs to prioritize schools for my son. …

Last updated on Dec 30, 2019 Education

Choosing a School in Wake County

My oldest is entering Kindergarten next year, and I want to answer two big questions: What are the best public schools he can attend? …

Last updated on Jun 27, 2020 Education

Understanding Transit Ridership Trends

Before talking about national transit trends, it’s important to grasp the relative size of the NYC market. The chart below shows the …

Last updated on Sep 6, 2019 transportation

Introducing the ipfr package

I’m happy to announce that the ipfr package is available on CRAN! The goal of this package is to make survey expansion, matrix …

Last updated on Sep 6, 2019 R

Projects

ipfr

An R library for survey expansion and population synthesis.

Hickory Model

A travel model using my GT library.