How to Describe Data

Elle O'Brien is a lecturer and research investigator at the University of Michigan. She completed her MS in neuroscience and PhD in hearing science at the University of Washington. Elle spent a year working at an open-source software startup training data professionals to adopt principles from software engineering to make their analyses more reproducible. Now as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Information, Elle designs and teaches graduate courses about statistics and data science. She is also running a research program to study how scientists adopt new software, analysis methods, and technology.