Stats Education
Teaching
For a list of courses I am currently teaching, see my personal page at the Maynooth University website.
Courses I have taught at 3rd level (Maynooth University and University of São Paulo):
- Topics in Data Analytics
- Time Series
- Statistical Methods for Data Science
- R for Statistics and Data Science
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Introduction to Data Science
- Introduction to Statistics
- Probability
- Statistical Computing with R
Short courses I have taught:
- Introduction to Mixed Models Using R
- Introduction to Generalized Linear Models Using R
- Introduction to Time Series Analysis Using R
- Introduction to Machine Learning Using R
- Model Selection and Model Simplification
- Data Visualisation Using R
- Data Wrangling Using R
- Statistical Modelling Applied to Entomology Using R: A Practical Course on Generalized Linear Mixed Models
- Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiments
- Introduction to Diversity-Interactions Models
- Topics in Machine Learning
- From Statistics to Data Science
- A ggplot2 tutorial and case study
- Image classification
- Topics in Data Science
- Experimental Design
- Generalized Linear Models
- Introduction to R
- Biostatistics Using R
Statistics Parodies
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I started writing parodies of famous songs to teach Statistics to undergraduate students.
You can access the 10-song suite I call the Summary Song Saga in this playlist. It includes:
| Song | Original |
|---|---|
| The Probability Song | Bad Guy, by Billie Eilish |
| Discrete Random Variables | Someone You Loved, by Lewis Capaldi |
| Savage Stats | Savage Love, by Jason DeRulo |
| S.O.S. P-value | S.O.S., by Avicii |
| CI Hammer | Square Hammer, by Ghost |
| Tidy Verse | Paradise, by Coldplay |
| Correlation Sugar | Watermelon Sugar, by Harry Styles |
| Simpson’s Paradox | Blinding Lights, by The Weeknd |
| Overfitting | Attention, by Charlie Puth |
| The ROCk Curve | The Pretender, by Foo Fighters |
I have also produced other music videos exploring the effects of Imposter Syndrome (‘Bad Reviews’, a parody of Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran) and what you should not do in R (‘The R Inferno Song’, a parody of Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus).
You can also find other short songs and videos in my Twitter and TikTok pages.
I was honoured to receive the Maths Week Ireland Award for this initiative.
I also produced videos to explain statistical concepts associated with epidemiology as part of the SciComm initiative by the Department of Health (see the articles published by the Irish Times and Irish Independent).
