about.Rmd

# About the Authors {-}


**Carrie Wright** is a Research Associate in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab, where her work focuses on making data science and bioinformatics more approachable to a variety of audiences. She is also a faculty member of the [open case studies project](https://www.opencasestudies.org/) and a co-founder of the [LIBD rstats club](http://research.libd.org/rstatsclub/), a community designed to encourage others to learn more about R programming and statistics. Carrie can be found on Twitter at [mirnas22](https://twitter.com/mirnas22) and on GitHub under the user name [carriewright11](https://github.com/carriewright11).


**Shannon E. Ellis** is an Assistant Teaching Professor of [Cognitive Science](http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu) at the [University of California San Deigo](https://ucsd.edu). She teaches data science to thousands of undergraduates each year and is a developer of the [Cloud-Based Data Science](https://www.clouddatascience.org) Course Set on [Leanpub](https://leanpub.com/universities/set/jhu/cloud-based-data-science). Shannon can be found on Twitter at [Shannon_E_Ellis](https://twitter.com/Shannon_E_Ellis) and on GitHub under the user name [ShanEllis](https://github.com/shanellis).


**Stephanie C. Hicks** is an Assistant Professor of [Biostatistics](https://www.jhsph.edu/departments/biostatistics) at the [Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health](https://www.jhsph.edu). She is also a faculty member of the [Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab](http://jhudatascience.org), co-host of [The Corresponding Author](https://twitter.com/CorrespondAuth) podcast and co-founder of [R-Ladies Baltimore](https://rladies-baltimore.github.io). Stephanie can be found on Twitter and GitHub under the user name [stephaniehicks](https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks).


**Roger D. Peng** is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a Co-Founder of the [Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization](http://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1), which has enrolled over 5 million students, the [Johns Hopkins Executive Data Science Specialization](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/executive-data-science), the [Simply Statistics blog](http://simplystatistics.org/) where he writes about statistics and data science for the general public, and the [Not So Standard Deviations](https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast) podcast. Roger can be found on Twitter and GitHub under the user name [rdpeng](https://twitter.com/rdpeng).