Research & Publications

Abstract I remember being an undergrad math major, knowing that math was a simultaneously fun and powerful tool, but not quite understanding how I could be a “professional mathematician,” or what that even meant. Sure, math is everywhere, but at the time I needed something a bit more concrete than a vague gesture in the direction of everywhere. Today, I still don’t know everywhere that math is, but I’ve found a few interesting places. This is a story about those places. It’s the story of life on the tenure track, around the newsroom, and in industry. It’s also the story of some of the meaningful people and ideas I met with along the way. But mostly, this is the story of how I became a data scientist.