Maya Samuels-Fair

Job title: 
Instructor, Consultant
Department: 
Integrative Biology
Bio/CV: 

Maya is an Integrative Biology Ph.D. student in the Finnegan Marine Paleobiology Lab, where she studies life-history evolution and diversity patterns in the marine invertebrate fossil record. She is happy to help with statistical analyses, data visualizations, and simulations in R. She also has recently been dabbling in image analysis, including python-based machine learning and 3D Slicer extension development, and would love to help other newcomers get started.

Research interests: 

Python, R, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Research Design, Bayesian methods, Cluster analysis, Experimental design, Hierarchical Models, Nonparametric methods, Regression Analysis, Time series, Excel, RStudio, RStudio Cloud

Role: