Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to:

Duncan Temple Lang, whose guidance and encouragement has had outsize influence on the way I think about and teach data science.

Deb Nolan, for being a role model as a data scientist, educator, and academic. Special thanks for the opportunity to collaborate on STAT 33 (on which this reader and workshop is loosely based) at Cal.

The rest of the DataLab team, for support and many thoughtful discussions about data science:

  • Wesley Brooks
  • Glenda Gaines
  • Jared Joseph
  • Arthur Koehl
  • Oliver Kreylos
  • Pamela Reynolds
  • Tyler Shoemaker
  • Carl Stahmer
  • Michele Tobias

Last but not least, every former student that asked questions or offered feedback when I taught.