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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m teaching myself software development and recording my experiences along the way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My educational background is in the social sciences, but I have been drawn towards writing code since my Master&amp;rsquo;s degree, where I found myself using R to wrangle data.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Later, while I was collecting data for another school project, I wrote my own wrapper around a popular, lower-level API for fetching Reddit data.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During that experience, I learned that I really enjoy learning about code and then applying my knowledge to create solutions. In my current role as a research coordinator, I write code to create custom logic to meet complex requirements for surveys (I still make scripts to wrangle data too).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      
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