Why R? Webinars - "Efficient computation with R" with Gwynn Sturdevant

• channel: youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundationVideos
• date: every Thursday 7:00 pm (Irish Time)
• format: one 45 minutes long stream + 10 minutes for Q&A
• MC: Lais Carvalho & Guests
• comments: ask questions on YouTube live chat
• join Why R? Slack whyr.pl/slack/
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/why-r
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/whyrconf/

# Speaker
Dr. Gwynn Sturdevant is a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Business School working on the Science of Science. In her most recent position, she worked on analytical projects in the rail and the aviation sectors including: improving Terminal Arrival Efficiency Rate estimation, developing an algorithm to predict train arrival times in a multi-agency rail operating environment, and developing methods to produce unbiased algorithmic results. Dr. Sturdevant developed an extensive Shiny application to assist in balancing trials as a post-doctoral fellow with Ken Kleinman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Harvard University). Dr. Sturdevant has a PhD in Statistics from the University of Auckland, the birthplace of R, where she studied under Thomas Lumley (University of Auckland and University of Washington) and Ross Ihaka. She focused on finding long-term effects, after cessation of treatments, when noisy measurements cross a threshold in biometric data