Amelia Mcnamara
Associate Professor
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAmelia Mcnamara is an Associate Professor of Computer and Data Sciences at the University of St. Thomas with 13 years of academic and research experience and a PhD in Statistics from UCLA. Her interdisciplinary research bridges statistics, computer science, and education, with particular strengths in data visualization, spatial statistics, and improving statistical computing tools for novices. She has a track record of translating research into classroom-ready tools and curricula—having helped develop an Introduction to Data Science course and contributed to the MobilizeSimple R package used in K–12 settings. Prior roles include faculty positions, research internships, and consulting on projects like LivelyR that explore more intuitive, rewindable statistical computing interfaces. Based in Minneapolis, she combines rigorous statistical methodology with practical software development to make data analysis more accessible to learners and educators.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of CincinnatiPh.D., Statistics, Ph.D., Statistics at University of California, Los AngelesBA, Mathematics, English, BA, Mathematics, English at Macalester College
Spanish
Github Skills (168)
parser10
code-behind10
knitr10
data-transformation10
rselenium10
literate-programming10
r10
dplyr10
data-visualization10
r-package10
prepare10
development-environment10
rmarkdown10
ide10
data-visualisation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AmeliaMN/data-science-in-tidyverse-nicar-2020
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
A substantially modified one-day workshop at NICAR 2019 on learning the R tidyverse packages
Contributions:13 commits, 4 pushes in 2 days
r-packagetibbletidymodelsworkshopday
dsscollection/factor-mgmt
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:96 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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