My doctoral training was in experimental psychology, and I started my professional career as a tenure-track teaching professor in the Department of Psychology at UCSD, teaching mostly in statistics and research methods with a bit of social psychology and programming every now and then. I have since moved out of the university, but continue to be passionate about statistics, education, and data. Since 2013, I have worked at JMP, a software company that makes impressively powerful yet easy to use software for preparing, analyzing, and visualizing data.

Statistics is more than just math, and it's more than just a collection of methods to analyze data; statistics provides a way to think about the world in a principled fashion, to interpret the outcomes of events unfolding before us, to see the structure of things amidst the prevailing noise and randomness of our reality. In short, it's neat.