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“The coupling of innovation and open data science tools for science has been fascinating to me and hard to tease apart”: An interview with Dr Julia Stewart-Lowndes
29th January 2020
Dr Julia Stewart-Lowndes is a marine ecologist, data scientist, and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California at Santa...
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“It feels to me like a very affirming community that people feel more comfortable saying this is the work I do”: An interview with R Studio’s Chief Technology Officer Joe Cheng
18th November 2019
Joe Cheng is the Chief Technology Officer at RStudio. Joe was the original creator of Shiny, and leads the team responsible for Shiny and Shiny Server. After studying a BS in Management -...
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How Our Future is Being Shaped by Data Science and Applied Mathematics
1st July 2019
Author: Liam Critchley The amount of data in today’s digital climate is vast and has been brought about by applied mathematics and data science working in unison. Reports suggest that over 1...
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“Combining statistics with hard core engineering and applied mathematics is for me just absolutely fantastic”: An interview with Mark Girolami
29th May 2018
Mark Girolami is an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow (2012 - 2018) and previously an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007 - 2012). He is the Director of the £10M Lloyds Register Foundation...
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Behind the scenes at the Alan Turing Institute
10th January 2018
Author: Liam Critchley Whether or not you are new to statistics (and data science in general), you may have heard about the Alan Turing Institute. Herein this article, we look at what the...
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“The rise of data science has forced us to consider our relationship with computer science:” An interview with Michael Jordan
26th January 2017
Michael Jordan is Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor at the University of California-Berkeley where his time is split between the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and...
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Exploratory Data Analysis: Widening Your View Point
17th October 2016
Author: Andy Kirk Much of the popular attention towards data visualisation focuses on its role as a means of communicating data to others, yet this only represents one side of the coin. As I...
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SAS Essentials: Co-author Alan C. Elliott on the latest edition of his book on mastering SAS for data analytics
13th June 2016
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish SAS Essentials: Mastering SAS for Data Analytics, a step-by-step introduction to using SAS statistical software as a foundational approach...
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The Art of Flowing Data: An interview with Dr Nathan Yau
25th November 2015
Dr Nathan Yau is best known for his popular blog, Flowing Data, which explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand...
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Created by statisticians for statisticians: How R took the world of statistics by storm
19th November 2015
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales Any particular day seems to be fit to change history. For instance, on May 5, 1976, Argentine former football player Juan Pablo Sorín was born. He played for...
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