Writing the Book on R | Stats + Short Stories Episode 222

Stats + Stories

Impacting statistical and data science communites is aspiration that many of us share. Outlets for such impact include work environments where we may collaborate with interdisciplinary teams. Other newer outlets are podcasting in a variety of publishing platforms. Today we will explore the origin story of such a contributor with guest Roger Peng. Roger D. Peng (@rdpeng) is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab. His research focuses on the development of statistical methods for addressing environmental health problems and he has made major contributions to our understanding of the health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution.