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Aaron
Cochran.

I build the platforms, pipelines and guardrails that let public-sector researchers do careful work with sensitive data — in R, Python, Snowflake and Posit Team.

Read the blog → github.com/hypnotoadie ↗
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Most of my work is connecting things that weren't designed to connect — systems, agencies, datasets, people — without losing track of who's allowed to see what.

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  • R
  • Python
  • Snowflake
  • Posit Team
  • Quarto
  • SQL Server
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GitHub

What I work on

Research Systems Specialist on an interagency research team in state government — part data scientist, part platform admin.

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Research platforms

Standing up and governing Posit Team on Snowflake — environments, access, promotion workflows and the docs that make them usable.

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Record linkage

Probabilistic matching and identity resolution across agencies, designed so data can be shared without over-sharing.

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Models in production

Taking models out of notebooks and into versioned, documented APIs with vetiver and plumber.

Writing

Technical notes, data work inside state government, navigating the world as a neurodivergent adult, and the occasional game off the clock.

  • research What Are You Going to Do With It? Why ‘nice to know’ questions are the most expensive ones in research, and the one question that makes them better. Nov 9, 2026 ↗
  • Off the clock Hello, world Who I am, what I work on, and what you’ll find here. Nov 8, 2026 ↗
  • government data You Get the Data You Pay For Administrative data is what public-sector researchers work with because it exists, not because it answers our questions. Closing that gap starts with being honest about what purposeful data collection costs. Nov 8, 2026 ↗
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Government data work is mostly trust work. The tooling is how you earn it.

I'm part of an interagency research team in state government. My job sits between infrastructure, governance and research tooling.

Here I write about that work, about what it's like doing data science inside state government, and occasionally about AI and the tabletop games I run on the side.

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Questions about public-sector data work, Posit, or something I wrote? Email is the best way to reach me.

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