Data science — ϲ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:32:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Penelope Pooler /faculty-experts/penelope-pooler/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:45:16 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167841 Penelope Pooler is a professor of statistics, analytics, and data science. Before joining the Whitman faculty, she worked as a senior scientist at Integral Consulting, Inc. She also worked as a senior statistician at SUNY Upstate Medical University in ϲ, New York, and spent many years working for the National Park Service and the U.S.G.S. on long term monitoring questions associated with climate change. She has also consulted with numerous clients in need of statistical and quantitative solutions to business challenges and data questions.

Professor Pooler earned her B.F.A. in economics and metalsmithing from ϲ, an MS. in statistics from Oregon State University, and her Ph.D. in statistics from Virginia Tech.
Research Topics

Statistical modeling
Data Science
Risk Analysis
Environmental Statistics
Public Health Statistics
R coding
SAS coding

]]> Justin Ehrlich /faculty-experts/justin-ehrlich/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:41:01 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=147376 Justin Ehrlich, Ph.D.,  has published several papers in sport data visualization and analysis in Public Choice, Mathematical Social Sciences, Games, and the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport. He has conducted many talks and live demonstrations on sport data computation, visualization, and analysis that incorporate use of Tableau (with VizQL), R, Python, and D3.

Ehrlich’s research has received support from the U.S. Department of Education, the U3E, and from Falk College. He was awarded the Moore Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the University of Kansas School of Engineering, the Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching with Technology from Western Illinois University, and several awards from WIU’s College of Business and Technology.

Ehrlich earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Kansas in 2010. His dissertation was titled, “The Effect of Desktop Illumination Realism on Presence and Generalization in a Virtual Learning Environment.” He also holds a computer science M.S. earned in 2007 from Wichita State University, and an accounting and business administration B.B.A., earned in 2004 from Friends University in Wichita, KS.

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