Statistics education
Tools for teaching data wrangling
When teaching examples using R, instructors often using nice datasets - but these aren’t very realistic, and aren’t what students will later encounter in the real world. Real datasets have typos, missing values encoded in strange ways, and weird spaces. The {messy} R package takes a clean dataset, and randomly adds these things in - giving students the opportunity to practice their data cleaning and wrangling skills without having to change all of your examples.
Publication: Making ‘messy’ Data: An R Package for Teaching Data Wrangling with Realistic Data (pre-print)
Teaching statistics communities
RSS Teaching Statistics Section
The Teaching Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society provides a platform to collate and disseminate ideas and best practice in the teaching of statistics in post-18 education, including higher education and professional training. Since October 2023, I’ve been a member of the RSS Teaching Statistics Section committee, and was elected as Secretary in August 2024.
RoSE Network
The RoSE Network (Researchers of Statistics Education) creates an open and inclusive space for multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners of statistics education globally to connect, learn, and collaborate, toward advancing statistics education research. Between September 2023 and January 2025, I co-led the Statistics Software Special Interest Group, and was part of the Communications team.