Alastair Sanderson

I aim to help people get more from their data, through direct analysis and especially visualisation. I have a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Birmingham and worked for over 10 years in academic research. You can access my old academic website here.

After discovering the statistical and data analysis software package, R, in 2004, I became very interested in applied statistics, machine learning and data science in general.

My R-related experience includes the following:

• co-founding and co-organising the Birmingham R User Meeting
• creating a popular website promoting & teaching R
• serving as a Technical Reviewer for Packt publishing on an R video course
• serving as a book proposal reviewer for Cambridge University Press for an R-based textbook
• acting as a referee for The R journal
• giving talks at the 2011 & 2012 international R user conferences

You can view and access all of my peer-reviewed published papers on the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System here, which are also summarised on Scopus.

These webpages were created with Emacs org mode.

The banner logo depicts a kernel-smoothed density estimate of a bimodal distribution of 20 data points, with the best-fit twin Gaussian curves also shown. It is a simplified version of figure 12 from my 2009 paper and was created in R.