Speaker: Hilary Parker

R Enthusiast, Co-Host of the Not So Standard Deviations Podcast, & Data Scientist @stitchfix

Hilary Parker is a Data Scientist on the styling recommendations team at Stitch Fix, a personal styling service that uses a combinations of human stylists and algorithmic recommendations to help people find what they love. At Stitch Fix, she focuses on what sorts of data to collect from clients in order to optimize clothing recommendations, as well as building out prototypes of algorithms or entirely new products based on new data sources. 

She is also a co-founder of the Not So Standard Deviations podcast, a bi-weekly data science podcast with Roger Peng that has over half a million downloads. Their topics of discussion include the R ecosystem, recent developments in the data science and statistics field, reproducibility and the "how" of how data scientists and statisticians work. Hilary recently authored the paper Opinionated Analysis Development based on discussions from the podcast. 

Prior to her career in the tech field, Hilary received her PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She lives at the San Francisco Zen Center with her partner, a Soto Zen Priest. In her free time, she enjoys exploring her home of 2 years, San Francisco.

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Keynote : Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art and Science

Talk : Speaker AMA with Hilary Parker

Other talks from track Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)

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Developer Advocate @Jetbrains
Principal Dev Manager for .NET Language and Runtime @Microsoft
Principal Developer Lead on C# Language Team @Microsoft
Polyglot Functional Developer @atomist
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness

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