Consistency
88The visible portfolio shows sustained activity across many years, with numerous repositories updated in 2025-2026 and several active, non-fork projects.
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@timriffe
Tim Riffe
A philosopher, trapped in a programmer's body, with a penchant for demography: data, demography, danger.
75.6Tier B
Category breakdown
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Impact
82The projects form a coherent, specialized body of demographic, mortality, decomposition, inequality, and coverage work, suggesting substantial practical and research value.
Quality
70Repository names, non-fork ownership, active status, and repeated domain-specific tooling signal mature project intent, though implementation quality cannot be assessed from metadata alone.
Breadth
43The supplied repositories are overwhelmingly R-based and concentrated in demography and population analysis, giving strong thematic variety but limited language and project-type variety.
Depth
86The long-running profile, specialized tool repositories, and continued work across related analytical projects indicate sustained ownership and meaningful domain depth.
Community
57Follower and star counts provide a modest positive signal, especially for demotools, but community evidence is limited and does not materially drive the other scores.
Contribution activity
365 day window
Playful reviews
The toolbox that became a workshop
demotools sounds like a tidy little utility drawer, but its sustained updates and broad demographic flavor suggest the drawer has quietly expanded into an entire workshop.
Decomposition season
demodecomp takes the bold stance that one demographic answer is never enough, then keeps splitting the question until the spreadsheet starts asking for its own decomposition.
The Sullivan special
decomp_sullivan has the wonderfully specific energy of a repository created after one method refused to leave the research agenda alone.
Mortality, but make it modular
hmdhfdplus sounds like the sequel where mortality data returns with bonus health and frailty content, proving even grim statistics can get an expansion pack.
SQL enters the demography lab
ddsqltools is the crossover episode: demographic analysis meets SQL, presumably so the data can be queried before it gets decomposed again.
Repository highlights
timriffe/phds_hle_2021
55An R repository tied to a 2021 PhD-related project, with a clear academic focus but no recent update visible.
R2 stars
timriffe/demotools
78A substantial, actively maintained R toolkit with the strongest visible community signal among the listed repositories.
R68 stars
timriffe/demodecomp
68An actively updated R project focused on demographic decomposition, indicating specialized analytical scope.
R11 stars
timriffe/incdem
62A recently updated R project centered on income or incidence demography, showing ongoing domain work.
R0 stars
timriffe/decomp_sullivan
64A current R repository focused on Sullivan decomposition, reflecting specialized methodological work.
R2 stars
timriffe/bssd2026module2
58A recently updated R module repository with an apparent educational or instructional focus.
R2 stars
timriffe/ms_dist
61An active R project concerning mortality or survival distributions, with a focused technical premise.
R1 stars
timriffe/avsp2026r
56A recent R repository whose name suggests an AVSP-related module or analysis, but metadata gives limited detail.
R0 stars
timriffe/hmdhfdplus
67A recently updated R project concerning human mortality and health or frailty data, suggesting specialized applied analysis.
R4 stars
timriffe/ddsqltools
60An R SQL-tools repository with a practical data-management orientation and a longer maintenance history.
R7 stars
timriffe/adultcoverage
52An R repository focused on adult coverage, representing a narrower applied demographic topic with older visible activity.
R2 stars
timriffe/lifeineq
45A forked R repository concerning life inequality; its presence adds topical context, but ownership evidence is weaker than for original projects.
R2 stars