Background

I am a Data Scientist & Professional Educator at RStudio. We develop free and open source tools to make it easier and more fun to do data science with the statistical programming language . We also create software to help teams who use R to share and publish their work.

I studied psychology and quantitative methods, receiving my Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University (2008). For eight years, I was a professor and scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, where my research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, and Autism Speaks. I have written numerous scientific journal articles and book chapters on autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.

I have developed and delivered workshops, graduate-level courses, and curricula based on teaching R, the tidyverse, and literate programming. You can follow my current work for RStudio Education on GitHub .

I developed and taught the following graduate-level courses at Oregon Health & Science University:

• Principles & Practice of Data Visualization (co-instructors: Drs. Steven Bedrick and Jackie Wirz)
• Probability & Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
• Introduction to Data Wrangling, Analysis, & Communication
• Data Science Programming (co-instructor)

I have also:

• Created the DataCamp.com course Working with Data in the Tidyverse; the second course in the “Tidyverse Fundamentals” track

• Consulted on the development of the Data Science Specialization for the University of Oregon College of Education.