02_contributors.Rmd

# Contributors {#contrib}

Jenny Bryan ([twitter](https://twitter.com/jennybryan), [GitHub](https://github.com/jennybc)) is a professor at the University of British Columbia. She's been using and teaching R (or S!) for 20 years, most recently in [STAT 545](http://stat545.com) and [Software Carpentry](http://software-carpentry.org). Other aspects of her R life include work with [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org/about/#leadership), development of the [`googlesheets`](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/googlesheets/index.html) and [`gapminder`](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gapminder/index.html) packages, and being academic director for [UBC's Master of Data Science](http://mds.science.ubc.ca).

The development and delivery of this material has benefited greatly from contributions by:

  * Dean Attali ([blog](http://deanattali.com), [GitHub](https://github.com/daattali/), [twitter](https://twitter.com/daattali)) who recently earned his M.Sc. Bioinformatics at UBC. He's the developer of the [shinyjs](https://github.com/daattali/shinyjs) package and [much more](http://deanattali.com/projects/).
  * Bernhard Konrad ([GitHub](https://github.com/BernhardKonrad), [twitter](https://twitter.com/bernhardkonrad)) recently earned his Ph.D. in Applied Math at UBC, completed an [Insight Data Science Fellowship](http://www.insightdatascience.com), and is a software engineer at Google.
  * Shaun Jackman ([GitHub](https://github.com/sjackman), [twitter](https://twitter.com/sjackman), [sjackman.ca](http://sjackman.ca)) is a Ph.D. in bioinformatics at UBC, the lead developer of [Linuxbrew](http://linuxbrew.sh) and a developer of [Homebrew-Science](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science) and the genome sequence assembly software [ABySS](https://github.com/bcgsc/abyss)
  * The [STAT 545 TA group](http://stat545.com/people.html)