#rstats hangout with Shannon Pileggi

We are excited to join forces with R-Ladies Nairobi and host a data hangout with Shannon Pileggi ✨

About the data hangout

For the first time, we will be meeting in a Twitter
space to have our data hangout, an informal Q&A session where we will talk with Shannon about #rstats, data, career trajectories and all the things we all love 💜

About Shannon

Shannon Pileggi PhD is a Data Scientist with more than ten years of experience partnering on data analysis with diverse stakeholders in academic, corporate, tech, public health, and clinical research settings. An enthusiastic educator and statistical collaborator, Shannon started her career in academia as a Lecturer with the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University, and later as an Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
When she transitioned to industry in 2019, Shannon leveraged open source and community resources to adopt modern programming practices and workflows in R. In 2020, Shannon began to give back to the R community through blogging and developing R-Ladies workshops; she currently serves as a member of the R-Ladies Global Team.
Shannon spends her days wrangling data, creating reproducible reports, building shiny apps, developing R packages, and mentoring junior Data Scientists at The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium, housed under Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
You can find her when piping hot data on her website (pipinghotdata.com), GitHub (@shannonpileggi) or Twitter (@PipingHotData).

Fancy joining us?

To join, check out our Twitter and make sure to tune in on June 2, 2022 at 6:00 PM GMT + 2 (7:00 PM GMT + 3).