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• NISS has some amazing events coming up! For more info or to register, go to https://www.niss.org/events

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• NISS Annual Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers 2024Registration is now open for the 2024 Writing Workshop! Check us out at https://www.niss.org/events
• COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series: Leadership at the Intersection of Tech & Academia (FREE - ZOOM)Join us for our another insightful webinar on the topic of leadership in the field of statistics and data science. The focus of this event will be to discuss how to successfully bridge the interests of academia and industry, and how statisticians and data scientists can build strong collaborations in both worlds.
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  quarto Short Course by NISS-GSNQuarto is the next generation of R Markdown for publishing, including dynamic and static documents and multi-lingual programming language support. With Quarto you can create documents, books, presentations, blogs or other online resources. This workshop will introduce you to authoring Quarto documents using RStudio Visual Editor, which provides a user interface for editing all of Pandoc markdown. You will also get a brief look into different formats (such as slides), publishing Quarto documents

Work history

AdministratorNational Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS)
Jan 1990Washington, United StatesFull Time