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Personal website of Jenny Bryan
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Add bios and photo(s) #3

Open jennybc opened 6 years ago

jennybc commented 6 years ago

Centralize bios and photos to provide when I'm giving a talk somewhere.

Bio I just approved for rstudio::conf

Jenny is a software engineer on the tidyverse team. She is a recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis. Jenny is known for smoothing the interfaces between R and spreadsheets, web APIs, and Git/GitHub. She’s been working in R/S for over 20 years and is a member of the R Foundation. She also serves in the leadership of rOpenSci and Forwards and is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia.

jennybc commented 6 years ago

Good ideas from @robjhyndman and @stephlocke re: this

https://github.com/lockedatapublished/itsalocke/blob/master/content/company/steph.md

https://github.com/rbind/robjhyndman.com/blob/master/content/about.md

jennybc commented 5 years ago

Taken from Happy Git contributors page, prior to revising:

Jenny Bryan (twitter, GitHub) is a Software Engineer at RStudio, working on the team lead by Hadley Wickham. This team brings you the popular set of packages known as the Tidyverse, as well as a set of low-level infrastructure packages. She is on leave from being an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia. Jenny has an undergraduate degree in Economics and German Literature from Yale University and earned her PhD in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley.

Jenny has been using and teaching R (or S!) for 20 years, most recently in STAT 545 and Software Carpentry. Other aspects of her R life include ordinary membership in the R Foundation, work with rOpenSci, development/maintenance of R packages (such as readxl), and leading the curriculum development for UBC's Master of Data Science.

jananiravi commented 5 years ago

@jennybc could you share the .md version of the write-up above? thanks!

jennybc commented 5 years ago

@jananiravi here you go

Taken from [Happy Git](http://happygitwithr.com/contrib.html) contributors page, prior to revising:

Jenny Bryan ([twitter](https://twitter.com/jennybryan), [GitHub](https://github.com/jennybc)) is a Software Engineer at [RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com), working on the team lead by [Hadley Wickham](http://hadley.nz). This team brings you the popular set of packages known as the [Tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org), as well as a set of [low-level infrastructure packages](https://github.com/r-lib/). She is on leave from being an Associate Professor of [Statistics at the University of British Columbia](https://www.stat.ubc.ca). Jenny has an undergraduate degree in Economics and German Literature from Yale University and earned her PhD in Biostatistics at UC Berkeley.

Jenny has been using and teaching R (or S!) for 20 years, most recently in [STAT 545](http://stat545.com) and [Software Carpentry](http://software-carpentry.org). Other aspects of her R life include ordinary membership in the [R Foundation](https://www.r-project.org/foundation/members.html), work with [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org/about/#leadership), development/maintenance of [R packages](https://www.r-pkg.org/search.html?q=Jennifer+bryan) (such as [readxl](http://readxl.tidyverse.org)), and leading the curriculum development for [UBC's Master of Data Science](http://mds.science.ubc.ca).

sorry about the lack of line breaks

jennybc commented 2 years ago

Provided for rstudio::conf 2022 workshops

Jenny is a software engineer at RStudio, on the tidyverse team. She is a recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis. Jenny is the maintainer of many R packages, in the areas of data import, web APIs, Git/GitHub, and package development. She has been working in R/S for over 20 years and is a member of the R Foundation. Prior to joining RStudio, she was a professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia.