Q&A with Stanford statistics Professor Susan Holmes: Statistics in the era of big data | Stanford News

"Statistician Susan Holmes has been working in data science before it was a field. Now her research visualizing and interpreting data reliably is becoming increasingly important as more fields are producing vast amounts of data."

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"So, I make tools. I write a lot of code. We use a software system called R, which is open source, and we try to make it so those tools are useful to researchers in other fields. I’m a proponent of open access and transparency in statistics. I’m very much in favor of reproducible research. Stanford has what’s called a digital repository, and every time we submit a paper, we include the data and all the code there and also in the supplementary material of the paper, so that anybody could go over it. The software we’ve developed, a lot of it is used by other people and that’s the most rewarding work."