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About me
I am a behavioral scientist + former professor turned data scientist + professional educator turned tech product manager, which all makes perfect sense once you get to know me. I have over 15 years of experience doing a combination of product management and data science. You might already be familiar with my public work:
⦿ I was the first PM of Data Science Communication @ Posit (née RStudio), where I significantly upgraded the user experience for an ecosystem of >15 open-source software packages (~40k daily downloads)
⦿ I made tidymodels.org and other widely used "websites as welcome mats" (reaching >600k people per month)
⦿ I developed & taught an online data science course "Working with data in the tidyverse" (>26k students)
⦿ I co-developed palmerpenguins (>32k code mentions on GitHub since 2020)
⦿ I co-wrote the book on building websites with R Markdown
⦿ I've taught over 15 public data science workshops, including 3 posit::conf 2-day events with 100+ participants (open source materials for all workshops are here: https://www.apreshill.com/categories/workshop/)
⦿ I have given technical keynote talks across the globe – in Australia, Canada, Latin America, and the U.S.
More than one colleague has nicknamed me Mary Poppins because I bring:
➵ Clarity and strategy to thorny problems
➵ Delight to day-to-day work (I am your go-to colleague with the best templates and slackmojis)
➵ Creative problem-solving energy and out of the box thinking
On top of that, I bring deep expertise in behavioral science and the science of learning. Drawing from my PhD in psychology and quantitative methods, I excel at making complicated technical concepts and products feel more approachable. I am also an award-winning technical educator. I’ve made everything from train-the-trainer programs, academic courses, MOOCs, software docs, technical websites and books, webinars, to multi-day global remote workshops. I have published papers on how to teach coding, and mentor others about how to teach tech with more heart for happier and more productive users.