Hi everyone, I'm Allison! I'm a continuing lecturer at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara, where I teach statistics, data analysis, and science communication. I'm also the current RStudio Artist-in-Residence, and you can find some of my R- and stats-related artwork here.

Interests

  • Teaching
  • Environmental science
  • Statistics
  • Data analysis
  • Science communication
  • Art

Education

  • PhD in Environmental Science and Management, 2012

    Bren School, UC Santa Barbara

  • MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2007

    UC Santa Barbara

  • BS in Chemical Engineering, 2005

    UC Santa Barbara

Recent Posts

palmerpenguins on CRAN

The palmerpenguins data package provides a wonderful alternative to the iris data
Last updated on Aug 1, 2020 1 min read data science, R, RStudio

Teach R with learnr

Last updated on Jun 21, 2020 1 min read teaching, R, RStudio

Customizing tables is fun (seriously) with gt

I made this little self-tutorial last year because I was really excited about being able to more simply customize tables with the gt …
Last updated on Jul 22, 2020 24 min read R

Birds of a feather, drawn together

By Allison Horst, Curtis Kephart, and Yanina Bellini Cross-posted: Birds of a Feather banner for RStudio::conf(2020)! The “Birds …
Last updated on Jun 21, 2020 4 min read R, art, RStudio

R for Excel Users Workshop

tl;dr: all workshop materials are available here: GitHub: https://github.com/rstudio-conf-2020/r-for-excel Book: …
Last updated on Mar 1, 2020 5 min read community
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Recent workshops and talks

How to Become a Missing Explorer (talk)

A presentation on why and how we should think about missing values in our environmental data, and how we can use Nick Tierney's naniar …
May 19, 2020 12:00 AM Bren School of Environmental Science and Management (UCSB)
Slides Tutorial

R for Excel Users Workshop at RStudio Conference 2020

A 2-day workshop to get Excel users and R beginners up-and-running with the basic tools, reproducible workflows and supportive …
Feb 20, 2020 12:00 AM
eBook Slides GitHub

SCCWRP Data Visualization Workshop

A 1/2 day basics of data visualization workshop covering the hierarchy of responsible and effective data visualization, aesthetics, and …
Nov 14, 2019 12:00 AM
Slides

SB R-Ladies Intro to (spooky) Shiny

A spooky (but not scary) introduction to building Shiny apps in R, presented at SB R-Ladies.
Oct 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Slides GitHub

Quantitative skills and R/RStudio workshop for incoming Bren PhD students

An intensive 7-day workshop to refresh quantitative skills (quantitative thinking, algebra, calculus, probability, hypothesis testing, …
Sep 16, 2019 12:00 AM — Sep 24, 2019 12:00 AM
Slides GitHub
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Skills & Interests

R

Environmental data analysis

Teaching & education

Statistics

Art & design

Science communication

Math

Teddy dog

Adventuring