Meet a Member: Amelia McNamara

Amelia McNamara is an Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of St Thomas, in Minnesota. You can find her on Mastodon and Bluesky. 

What advice would you give to someone who is new to teaching statistics? 

Get yourself a copy of Gelman and Nolan's “Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks”. 

What is your go-to source for data?

I love Jeremy Singer-Vine's Data is Plural newsletter and spreadsheet archive. Also great is Larry Winner's miscellaneous datasets, lots of datasets good for particular techniques.

What statistics classes do you enjoy teaching the most? 

I love teaching Data Communication and Visualization!

What do you enjoy doing when you’re not working? 

One of my hobbies is darning, a method of mending knitted items.