For #ThrowbackThursday I thought I'd highlight some of the amazing women who have been mentors (and friends) to me. Without support from an amazing community of women in mathematics & statistics I would not be where I am today! #WomenInSTEM
Lara was my advisor during my summer REU experience at @ValpoU in 2011.
Without her mentorship, I don't think I would have ever considered graduate school!
@lpudwell@ValpoU Here's a photo of Lara and I with my fellow REU-ers, Mike & Casey.
The 3 of us all went on to get PhDs in stats (me), applied math (Mike) and pure math (Casey). 🤓
@lpudwell@ValpoU Wow, just realizing that next month marks ten years (10!) since that REU experience! Crazy how time flies when you're having fun doing math and stats!
@lpudwell@ValpoU My PhD advisor, Heike Hofmann @heike_hh is an amazing mentor and friend. No set of tweets can accurately describe just how much she means to me. ❤️
The #DataFeminism book also made me look inward and examine my own biases, which I am exceedingly grateful for.
Namely, it forced me to reckon with some of my fundamental operating assumptions as a statistician & data scientist.
Examples threaded below...
In chapter 3, the authors discuss the role of emotion in data visualization, specifically calling out giants in the field like Edward Tufte and Alberto Cairo (no snitch tagging, please) for what is presented as an anti-emotion stance.
On Tufte: "Any ink devoted to something other than the data themselves ... is a suspect and intruder to the graphic. Visual minimalism, according to this logic, appeals to reason first. ... Decorative elements ... are associated with messy feelings ... and emotional persuasion."
As we practice and teach Data Science, we continuously learn, unlearn and revise old and new concepts.
What are some freely available reading lists that give that help this or give a great intro to Data Science?
Another great one which details specific vital segments like clustering and dimensionality is this book/course from University of Utah: cs.utah.edu/~jeffp/teachin…
For some #MondayMotivation, let's create a great resource of fellowships, workshops and communities in Data Science.
I'll start with some!
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The Women in Data Science Conference (widsconference.org) is a great place to learn, network and grow.
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The ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships(sighpc.org/fellowships), with an upcoming deadline fosters diversity in Data Science and allied fields.
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Happy Friday!! Today I'd like to describe two important approaches to data privacy research and applications: synthetic data and differential privacy. I hope to generate more interests in this area among researchers and practitioners!
1/n Data privacy and data confidentiality are important topics for statisticians, computer scientists, and really, anyone offers their own data and consume data!
2/n Statistical agencies, in particular, are under legal obligations to protect the privacy and confidentiality of survey and census respondents, e.g. U.S. Title 26.