Python
Paul Onyango Otuoro
Data Analyst
Kisumu
Summary
Data Analyst supporting AMR research with R, Stata, Python, and advanced Excel. Turns clinical, laboratory, and surveillance datasets into dashboards, visualizations, and reports that support scientific and policy decisions. Applies descriptive, inferential, and time-series analysis to identify trends, validate findings, and present clear outputs for investigators.
Overview
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Language
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Certifications
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11
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Manager Assistant
Washington State University Global Health Kenya
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
07.2023 - Current
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain longitudinal and routinely collected datasets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and secure storage in compliance with data management protocols.
- Lead ongoing data cleaning, validation, and quality checks, strengthening data integrity across epidemiological and laboratory datasets.
- Apply a range of statistical methods (descriptive, inferential, and time-series) to analyze panel data and uncover meaningful trends and patterns in AMR research.
- Build and maintain reproducible analytical workflows using R, Stata, and Python to improve efficiency and transparency in data analysis.
- Support the development and implementation of electronic data capture systems (REDCap), including designing data collection tools and maintaining data dictionaries.
- Consolidate and manage datasets from multiple sources, including clinical, laboratory, and surveillance data, ensuring consistency and usability.
- Develop analytical outputs such as dashboards, visualizations, and reports to support decision-making by investigators and stakeholders.
- Contribute to scientific communication through preparation of reports, presentations, and manuscript inputs.
- Address routine and ad hoc data requests, delivering timely and accurate analytical insights.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams (laboratory and field teams) to support coordinated data collection, monitoring, and reporting processes.
- Provide guidance to field and research teams on data collection tools, quality assurance processes, and reporting standards.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly summaries highlighting key findings, trends, and programmatic insights.
Data Processing Executive
Dalberg Research
Nairobi, Nairobi Province
01.2017 - 11.2021
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conducted rigorous daily monitoring and meticulous cleaning of incoming data streams to maintain high-quality datasets.
- Proficiently analyzed data using Python and R, extracting meaningful insights to inform drive decision-making processes.
- Designed and scripted comprehensive questionnaires, ensuring clarity, relevance, and adherence to research objectives, to facilitate efficient data collection and analysis processes.
- Conducted thorough reviews of questionnaires to optimize their usability and data-friendliness, ensuring clarity, consistency, and effectiveness in eliciting valuable responses.
- Maintained strict adherence to field manual protocols and procedures, guaranteeing consistency and accuracy throughout data collection processes.
Intern- Data Clerk
Infotrack Research and Consulting
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Executed data entry tasks with precision, ensuring dataset integrity and completeness.
- Conducted efficient data collection using ODK.
Education
Master of Science - Data Analytics
KCA University
Nairobi08-2027
Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Programming
Kenyatta University
Nairobi, Nairobi Province, Kenya01-2015
Data Science - Data Science
Moringa School
Nairobi, Nairobi Province, Kenya 04.2001 -
Skills
Python
R
Stata
Advanced Excel
REDCap
Statistical analysis
Inferential statistics
Time-series analysis
Software
R
Certification
Data Science – Moringa School
Timeline
Data Manager Assistant
Washington State University Global Health Kenya
07.2023 - Current
Data Processing Executive
Dalberg Research
01.2017 - 11.2021
Intern- Data Clerk
Infotrack Research and Consulting
01.2016 - 12.2016
Data Science - Data Science
Moringa School
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Data Analytics
KCA University
Bachelor of Science - Statistics and Programming
Kenyatta University