I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo (UDELAR-IESTA). I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Statistics at Iowa State University on July 2017 working with Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. My interest are: supervised learning methods, prediction, exploratory data analysis, statistical graphics, reproducible research and meta-analysis. I’m co-founder of R-Ladies-Ames and R-Ladies-Montevideo. I’m working in different initiatives to get a stronger and bigger R community in Latin America. If you want to know more about the R community across Latin America, check R Fordwards post.
Working papers:
da Silva N., Lee, E., Cook, D., A Projection Pursuit Forest Algorithm for Supervised Classification.
da Silva N., Cook, D., and Lee, E., Interactive Graphics for Visually Diagnosing Forest Classifiers in R arxiv.
da Silva N., Cook, D., Hofmann., H, and Lee, E., Enhancements to Projection Pursuit Tree Classifier for Heterogeneity and Nonlinear Separation.
R pkg and Shiny apps:
PhD, 2017
Iowa State University
MS in Statistics, 2014
Iowa State University
BSc in Economics, 2008
Universidad de la República
BSc in Statistics, 2007
Universidad de la República
Latin American Conference about the use of R in research and development.
Organization to promote women participation in mathematics.
Word-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community.
This semester I’m teaching a new stat undergrad course “New technologies for the statistical data analysis”. This course will cover reproducible research, tidyverse, statistical visualization with ggolot2 and more!
Previous teaching experience:
Iowa State University (USA):
Universidad de la República (URUGUAY)