Dr. Stimers | Dissertation Coaching
Dr. Mitch Stimers focuses on coaching, editing, analytics, and grant writing/editing. Beginning with his undergraduate work in computer science, geography, political science, and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and continuing through a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science (GISc), an M.A., and a Ph.D. in geography at Kansas State University, Dr. Stimers’ focus in academia has been on geography, information management, and analysis, statistics, physical science, and cultural studies for over 20 years. His 2011 doctoral dissertation won the Jeanne X. Kasperson Award for Emerging Scholars in Hazards Research from the American Association of Geographers. He assists students in both qualitative and quantitative dissertations, and mixed-methods approaches, and heads-up all grant writing and data analysis projects.
An active researcher, Mitch has published numerous articles using methods including basic and advanced spatial and tabular analysis and modeling, multi-criteria decision analysis, rule-set prediction, the analytic hierarchical process (AHP), data clustering methods, composite index development, and principal components analysis. In 2021, the Encyclopedia of Natural Disasters was published, featuring eight articles written by him. Further, Dr. Stimers has published statistically-based analysis papers in the fields of biology, psychology, and political science.
As an institutional researcher, he completed hundreds of internal statistical analyses, reports, and white papers on educational topics and provided grant writing and data analysis support for internal and external grants (including three successful TRIO grants). He custom-wrote over 75,000 lines of TSQL code to support IR work and built an algorithm to determine the likelihood of student risk/success (a customizable product available for purchase). Mitch brings expert-level knowledge of the industry-standard IBM SPSS environment and SQL data retrieval and custom dataset cleaning, coding, construction, and modeling to the team. Survey design and implementation expertise in obtaining additional information for use in regression analysis, modeling, and other techniques complement his data analysis skills.
Professionally trained as a geographer, Dr. Stimers is well-versed in GIS platforms (ArcGIS and QGIS) and can produce custom maps and spatial analysis products from Internet-based GIS data or custom-build a spatial dataset through the process of geocoding tabular data or the use of GPS-derived data.
Services Foci: Coaching, Editing, Analytics
Academic Areas of Expertise (doctoral, master’s): Geography and Geoscience, Statistics, Data Analytics, and Information Management
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