Hi Narragansett!

• I’m Jasmine Dumas
  • Data Scientist and useR living in Connecticut
  • Work at Simple Finance based in Portland, OR
  • Author of ttbbeer and shinyLP
• Slides and Materials available on GitHub:
  • jasdumas/talks/rhodyrstats-R-user-group

More about my background in Biomedical Engineering

• Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Hartford
  • Lots of Calculus but no Statistics courses!
• I participated in a few of research projects (one was published in the CT Medical Journal)
• I was particularly fond of computational approaches to solving engineering problems with regards to medical devices
  • Robotics
  • Aerospace
  • Computer-Aided Design
• My Engineering Path:
  • Manufacturing Engineer ➡️ R&D Intern ➡️️ R&D Engineering Technician ➡️ (…) ➡️️ Data Scientist

I learned about data science from the internet

The classic data science diagram from Drew Conway:

A updated (albeit oppinated) data science diagram from Mikhail Popov:

I'm so tired of all the hilariously wrong data science venn diagrams so I made what I think will be definitive one. pic.twitter.com/ELcPZi6atJ

— Mikhail Popov (@bearloga) March 3, 2017