Hi everyone, I’m Allison! I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara, where I teach primarily in our Master of Environmental Data Science program. My classes include Essential Math for Environmental Data Science, Scientific Programming Essentials, and the MEDS Capstone course to facilitate student progress on their 6-month group capstone project as a faculty advisor.

I actively work to contribute to open educational resources, including software for data science education (e.g. the palmerpenguins R dataset package), and artwork for data science & stats teachers and learners. From 2019 - 2020 I was RStudio’s first Artist-in-Residence. You can read more about my motivation in that role in this blog post, and you can find some of my R- and stats-related artwork in this repo.