Rebecca Barter
Data Engineer
United States
Summary
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SeniorRebecca Barter is a Senior Data Scientist and educator with a PhD in Statistics and over a decade of experience turning messy, high-dimensional datasets—like electronic medical records, insurance claims, and genomics—into actionable insights. She blends advanced R programming and visualization expertise (author of the superheat package) with a gift for clear communication, making complex methods accessible through workshops and a widely read blog. As a certified RStudio and Software Carpentry instructor who has taught hundreds of thousands of learners, she pairs academic rigor from UC Berkeley with practical research roles at the University of Utah and Berkeley. Her forthcoming book with Professor Bin Yu, Veridical Data Science, highlights her commitment to responsible, transparent analysis and decision-making. Based in South Lake Tahoe, she uniquely balances research, teaching, and open-source tool development to accelerate reproducible, interpretable data science.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
r-package10
heatmap10
journal9
open-access9
risk-assessment8
r8
academia7
complexheatmap7
data-wrangling7
rstudio7
stable7
creative-commons7
tidy6
knitr6
statistics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rlbarter/superheat
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
An r package for generating beautiful and customizable heatmaps
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 11 months
heatmapr-package
rlbarter/superheat-examples
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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