Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile
Rebecca Barter

@rlbarter

Data Scientist and Educator with a PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley. I like exploring messy data and explaining things.
fosstodon.org/@rlbarter

ID: 2991922598

linkhttp://www.rebeccabarter.com calendar_today21-01-2015 21:33:05

563 Tweet

3,3K Followers

525 Following

Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday, IBM announces plans to replace 7800 jobs with AI. Many other companies will follow. You should be learning and leveraging AI now to prepare. Here are the top 6 FREE courses on AI to get you massively ahead:

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Does anyone have recommendations for a platform to use to teach SQL to beginners? Ideally one that is reasonably easy to set up (they can just download/create an account and immediately access the database) and doesn't require that they know how to use the terminal, R, or Python?

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you an R user who is interested in learning Python 🐍 ? My new blog post introducing Python from an R user's perspective might be just the launching point you need to get started on your journey 🛫 rebeccabarter.com/blog/2023-09-1… #rstats #python #DataScience

Daniel Scharfstein (@dscharf3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join us at @UofUBiostatistics! #BiostatsElevated. We're hiring #Biostatistics faculty passionate about developing and applying innovative methods to advance #BiomedicalResearch. Consider applying. Please share widely. More info at bit.ly/BioJob2023. University of Utah Health U of U PHS

Emily Riederer (@emilyriederer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a Yihui Xie appreciation post #rstats, please join me in sponsoring Yihui Xie on GitHub github.com/sponsors/yihui (Context: yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye…) 1/n 🧵(or shall I say 🧶)

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incorporating AI into your work is easier than you think! Check out my new blog post in which I generate synthetic doctor’s notes, and then use text embeddings to automatically label the notes using the OpenAI API in Python. rebeccabarter.com/blog/2024-04-1…

Bin Yu (@bbiinnyyuu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our book "Veridical data science" (Yu and Barter, forthcoming MIT Press) is reviewed by Yuval and Yoav Benjamini in Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) (hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/5322mn1e/r…). The book is available at vdsbook.com.

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So wonderful to have such a great review of Bin Yu + my book "Veridical Data Science" in the Harvard Data Science Review this week! hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/5322mn1e/r… You can read VDS for free at vdsbook.com Physical copies available from The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social later this year

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Tomorrow is the official release of Bin Yu and my book, Veridical Data Science, with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. I'm so excited to for physical copies to be out in the world! Get your copy from mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049191/…

📢 Tomorrow is the official release of <a href="/bbiinnyyuu/">Bin Yu</a>  and my book, Veridical Data Science, with <a href="/mitpress/">The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social</a>. I'm so excited to for physical copies to be out in the world!

Get your copy from mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049191/…
Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚀I’m teaming up with Instats to lead a full-day virtual **Python for R Users** workshop on November 13. If you're an R user curious about expanding your toolkit with Python, this hands-on session is for you! 🐍💻 Interested? Register here 👉: instats.org/seminar/python…

Rebecca Barter (@rlbarter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've turned my intro to R workshop into a free book: The R Workshop 🌟 Perfect for R beginners, with more chapters coming soon! r-workshop.org Prefer live instruction? Join my 2-day virtual workshop Jan 15-16 via Instats. Details: bit.ly/4j9ndwn #rstats