Jenny Bryan Explained

Jennifer "Jenny" Bryan
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Known For:R packages
Website:https://jennybryan.org

Jennifer "Jenny" Bryan is a data scientist and an associate professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia where she developed the Master in Data Science Program. She is a statistician and software engineer at RStudio from Vancouver, Canada and is known for creating open source tools which connect R to Google Sheets and Google Drive.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Education

Bryan earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and German literature from Yale University in 1992 and her PhD in Biostatistics from University of California, Berkeley in 2001.[5] [6]

Career

As an associate professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia,[7] Bryan worked on biostatistics with a focus on gene expression and microarray data. Notable projects to which she has contributed include the quantification of photomotor responses in larval zebrafish,[8] the development of an assay system in the multicellular animal Caenorhabditis elegans to test genetic interactions causing synthetic lethality in somatic cells,[9] and a novel yeast-based model to search for modifier genes involved in cystic fibrosis.[10] Beyond biostatistics, Bryan has also contributed to medoids-based clustering methods.[11] Her general science contributions include a manifesto published in PLOS One on good practices for scientific computing[12] and an introduction to the Git version control system[13] for research data analysis.[14] [15] [16]

Bryan's teaching activities at UBC included development of the Master of Data Science Program[17] and new materials for the STAT 545 course.[18] Under Bryan's direction, the STAT 545 course became notable as an early example of a data science course taught in a statistics program. It is also notable for its focus on teaching using modern R packages, Git and GitHub, its extensive sharing of teaching materials openly online, and its strong emphasis on practical data cleaning, exploration, and visualization skills, rather than algorithms and theory.[15] As of late 2016 Bryan is on leave from her UBC position and is working at RStudio with a team led by Hadley Wickham.

Bryan has had experience with S and R since 1996. She is known for her open source contributions in R.[19] Influential contributions include the use of Lego[20] and the concept of data rectangling[21] for explaining programming concepts,[22] [23] reproducible research,[24] and advice on project and workflow organisation.[25] [26] [27]

Bryan is well known for her work on efficient methods of working in spreadsheets, and the connection between R and spreadsheet software such as Excel and Google Sheets. She is the primary developer of the R package googlesheets, that connects R to the Google Sheets service,[28] and googledrive, an R package for interfacing between R and Google Drive.

Bryan is known for her work in teaching, her contributions to R packages, and her involvement with the leadership committee at rOpenSci.[29] [30] She is also part of the R Foundation Forwards task force and a member of the editorial board of BMC Bioinformatics.[31] Previously, she worked as an Associate at the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, MA.

Personal life

Bryan lives with her husband, three children, and dog, Toby.[1] [31] [32]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: .rprofile: Jenny Bryan. Kelly. O'Briant. 8 December 2017 . rOpenSci. 10.59350/p8h48-s7k80 . 4 February 2018. en.
  2. Web site: GitHub profile of Jennifer (Jenny) Bryan . GitHub. 4 February 2018. en.
  3. News: Machlis . Sharon . 2016-11-30 . What's up with RStudio's 2 high-profile hires? . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190401105228/https://www.computerworld.com/article/3146228/whats-up-with-rstudios-2-high-profile-hires.html . 2019-04-01 . 19 February 2018 . Computer World . en.
  4. Hofmann . Heike . VanderPlas . Susan . All of This Has Happened Before. All of This Will Happen Again: Data Science . Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . 19 December 2017 . 26 . 4 . 775–778 . 10.1080/10618600.2017.1385474. 126170766 .
  5. Book: Bryan, Jenny. Happy Git and GitHub for the useR . 4 February 2018. en.
  6. Web site: Jennifer Bryan homepage . 4 February 2018. en.
  7. Book: Happy Git and GitHub for the useR. en. 4 February 2018.
  8. Jenkins. Jeremy L. Urban. Laszlo. 2010. Fishing for neuroactive compounds. Nature Chemical Biology. En. 6. 3. 172–173. 10.1038/nchembio.320. 20154663. 1552-4469.
  9. 2009-12-15. InCytes from MBC, December 2009. Molecular Biology of the Cell. en. 20. 24. 5037–5038. 10.1091/mbc.z09-00-0024. 1059-1524. 2793281.
  10. Blondel. Marc. 2012-12-27. Flirting with CFTR modifier genes at happy hour. Genome Medicine. 4. 12. 98. 10.1186/gm399. 23270638. 3580438. 1756-994X . free .
  11. Van der Laan. Mark. 2003. A new partitioning around medoids algorithm. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 73. 8. 575–584. 10.1080/0094965031000136012. 17437463.
  12. Wilson. Greg. Bryan. Jennifer. Cranston. Karen. Kitzes. Justin. Nederbragt. Lex. Teal. Tracy K.. 2017-06-22. Good enough practices in scientific computing. PLOS Computational Biology. en. 13. 6. e1005510. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510. 28640806. 5480810. 1553-7358. 2017PLSCB..13E5510W . free .
  13. Bryan. Jenny. 2018. Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?. The American Statistician. 72. 20–27. 10.1080/00031305.2017.1399928. 125821034.
  14. Baumer . Benjamin S. . Lessons From Between the White Lines for Isolated Data Scientists . The American Statistician . 72 . 1 . 66–71 . 10.1080/00031305.2017.1375985. 2018 . 126280044 .
  15. Marwick . Ben . Boettiger . Carl . Mullen . Lincoln . Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends) . The American Statistician . 29 September 2017 . 72 . 1 . 80–88 . 10.1080/00031305.2017.1375986. 125412832 .
  16. McNamara . Amelia . Horton . Nicholas J. . Baumer . Benjamin S. . Greater Data Science at Baccalaureate Institutions . Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics . 19 December 2017 . 26 . 4 . 781–783 . 10.1080/10618600.2017.1386568. 1710.08728 . 2017arXiv171008728M . 88522819 .
  17. News: New Master of Data Science coming to UBC. Helen. Zhou. 2016-02-29. The Ubyssey.
  18. Web site: Data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R. Bryan. Jenny. 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180224035513/http://stat545.com/. 24 February 2018. 20 March 2018.
  19. News: Women considered better coders- but only if they hide their gender. Julia Carie Wong. The Guardian. 2016-02-12.
  20. Web site: Data Rectangling (Talk presented at PLOTCON 2016). Bryan. Jenny. 2016.
  21. Web site: Data Rectangling with jq. Boettiger.. Carl. Dec 11, 2017. Boettiger Group. 20 March 2018.
  22. Web site: A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2016. Leek. Jeff. 2016-12-20. Simply Stats. 20 March 2018.
  23. Web site: EARL Boston Revisited. 5 Dec 2016. Mango Business Solutions. 20 March 2018.
  24. Book: Kitzes, Justin . The practice of reproducible research : case studies and lessons from the data-intensive sciences . University of California Press . Oakland, California . 2018 . 9780520294752 .
  25. Web site: Project-oriented workflow. 2017. Tidyverse Blog. 20 March 2018.
  26. Web site: Do you have bad R habits? Here's how to identify and fix them.. Smith. David. 2 January 2018. Revolutions: Daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. 20 March 2018.
  27. Layton . Richard . Influences of Reproducible Reporting on Work Flow . Chance . 19 November 2015 . 28 . 4 . 60–64 . 10.1080/09332480.2015.1120133. 61249336 .
  28. Web site: Using the googlesheets package to work with Google Sheets. de Vries. Andrie. 2 September 2015. Revolutions: Daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. 20 March 2018.
  29. Web site: rOpenSci: Meet Our Team.
  30. Web site: Jenny Bryan's CV. 4 February 2018. en.
  31. Web site: StatsChat Jenny Bryan: "You need a huge tolerance for ambiguity" . Atakohu. Middleton. StatsChat. 2017-12-15. 4 February 2018. en.
  32. Web site: Robinson . Emily . Does a tweet count as a citation? His name is Toby. . Twitter . 15 October 2018.

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