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:

• Projection pursuit forest algorithm for supervised classification PPforest pkg
• Visualizing the Classification Model Produced by a Projection Pursuit Random Forest. Shiny app
• Determinants of Poverty in U.S. Shiny app
• Twenty-Year Ecological Analysis of Adult Mosquito Communities in Iowa. SHiny app

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):

• STAT 528: Visual Business Analytics (TA, Fall 2016)
• STAT 104: Introduction to Statistics (Instructor, Summer 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2015)
• STAT 503: Exploratory Methods and Data Mining (TA, Spring 2015)
  
• VDPAM 522: Principles of Epidemiology and Population Health (TA, Summer 2013, Spring 2013)
• VDPAM 529: Epidemiological Methods in Population Research (TA, Fall 2012)
• STAT 226: Introduction to Business Statistics I (TA Fall 2011)

Universidad de la República (URUGUAY)

• Statistic I (TA, Spring 2011)
• Introduction to Statistics (Instructor, Fall 2010)
• Time Series (TA, Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
• Math I (Instructor, 2006-2009)
• Quantitative Methods I ( Instructor, Fall 2006)
• Quantitative Methods II, (TA, Spring 2006)
• Quantitative Methods III, (TA, Spring 2006)
• Computing, ( Instructor, Spring 2005)

• natalia@iesta.edu.uy
• pacocuak
• Eduardo Acevedo 1139, Montevideo, Uruguay
• By appointment