"I’m Ian. I tutor economics, math, statistics, and econometrics, plus the tools that tend to come with them (Stata/R/Python and GIS). I’ve spent enough time in academia to collect a PhD and four master’s degrees across Georgia Tech, Indiana University, and the Barcelona School of Economics, plus a B.A. in Economics from UNC Chapel Hill with summer study at LSE. I mention that not to hang certificates on the wall, but to say: I know what it feels like to stare at a model and wonder why it exists, and I know how to make it make sense.

I work with a wide range of students and professionals: parents supporting AP and homeschool students, undergrads who need a rescue mission (or want to get ahead), MBA/MPP students, graduate and PhD students, and working professionals using these skills on the job. I’ve taught or supported courses through Georgia Tech, Duke Fuqua, IU Bloomington, and Campus.edu, so I’ve seen the common traps in the curriculum and the ones that are unique to your instructor’s style. My sessions are structured and efficient. We diagnose exactly where the logic breaks down, rebuild the foundation, and practice the high-yield moves until you can do it independently. I’m direct, I’m patient, and I’ll tell you honestly what we can accomplish in one session.

If you’re deep in the trenches of research, I also offer hands-on “shadow advising” to get projects unstuck. That can mean refining your question, choosing an empirical strategy, debugging Stata/R/Python, or making spatial work behave in QGIS/ArcGIS. The goal is a workflow that runs, results you can explain, and writing and figures that look like they belong in a serious paper." less...