Authors
Deborah Nolan
University of California, Berkeley
Professor, Department of Statistics
Deborah Nolan has led many efforts to improve
instruction in mathematics and statistics and to engage undergraduates
in educational outreach. She holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair in
Undergraduate Education at Berkeley, and received the
University's Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley and the William
R. Kenan, Jr. Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching at
Princeton. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association,
and former Chair of both its Computing Section and its Education
Section. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics. She co-directs the math and science teacher preparation
program, Cal Teach, and master teacher in-service program, Math for
America, Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including
this one.
Duncan Temple Lang
University of California, Davis
Professor, Department of Statistics
Director, Data Science Initiative
Duncan Temple Lang has been involved in the development of R
and S for 20 years, and has developed over 100 R packages. He
focuses on exploring and developing new possibilities for statistical
computing, typically investigating new and ambitious paradigms and
technologies from other disciplines and incorporating them, currently,
into the R environment. He is currently working on compilation for
using an LLVM-based approach; provenance for R
computations; type inference; and a fast, flexible framework for
Bayesian and likelihood computations in R (NIMBLE); and graphical processing units (GPUs).
He recently became the Director of the UC Davis Data Science Initiative.
Nolan and Temple Lang are the authors of the book XML and
Web Technologies for Data Science in R. They have also
organized and led several NSF-funded summer programs aimed at
attracting students to graduate studies in statistics, and short
workshops in data science topics. Together, they developed a course,
Concepts in Computing with Data, on their respective campuses, and
they have collaborated on systems for interactive, reproducible,
dynamic documents, and Web-based visualization.
Duncan Temple Lang
<duncan@r-project.org>
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