Joyce Robbins
Senior Lecturer at Department of Statistics, Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoyce Robbins is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University with a decade of academic and consulting experience focused on data visualization, statistics, and sociological research. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia, an M.A. from Tel Aviv University, and a B.S.E. in operations research from Princeton, blending rigorous social-science methods with quantitative engineering training. Joyce has taught across levels from secondary school to graduate seminars, consulted on data projects, and regularly communicates complex findings as a writer and speaker. Her work emphasizes making data understandable and actionable, and her GitHub and personal site showcase reproducible visualization tools and pedagogical resources used in teaching. Colleagues describe her as a scholar-practitioner who bridges theory, computation, and clear presentation in service of evidence-driven decision making.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Sociology and Anthropology, Master of Arts (M.A.), Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New YorkB.S.E., Operations Research, B.S.E., Operations Research at Princeton University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (146)
epub10
tidyverse10
haiku10
categorical10
literate-programming10
ggplot10
resumable10
bookdown10
markdown10
r10
graphic10
dplyr10
latex10
azerothcore10
html10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jtr13/bookdown-template
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Template for R bookdown books
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
bookdownr
nbrgraphs/springishere
Mar 2019 - Apr 2025
But it's still cold
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 1 month
stillcold
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