Norm Matloff
Professor at BARUG
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolNorm Matloff is a professor of statistics and computer science at UC Davis with over 16 years of professional experience and a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA. He is an award-winning author in R and statistics, blending deep theoretical foundations with practical software and pedagogy. Based in Walnut Creek, he organizes community R user groups (BARUG) and brings academic rigor to applied data problems and teaching. Norm’s work emphasizes reproducible, accessible statistical tools and education, reflected in widely used writings and resources hosted on his long-standing personal site. Colleagues appreciate his ability to translate complex mathematical ideas into practical code and clear instruction. Beyond academia, he is an active communicator in the R community, helping broaden access to statistical computing.
16 years of coding experience
EHSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
51reputation
156reached
1answer
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Github Skills (59)
prediction-model10
probability10
nonlinear10
classification10
feature-selection10
r10
parallel-coordinates10
statistics10
machine-learning10
tidyverse10
dialect10
tidymodels10
linear-models10
linear-regression10
tidy10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
matloff/Rdsm
Dec 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
matloff/des
Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 47 pushes in 1 year 8 months
discrete-event-simulationsimulationdiscretediscrete-event
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