Talks

What do you get when you cross a chatterbox and a scientist? A whole lot of talks!

Whether I’m in a classroom, conference, or corporate meeting, I 💖 bringing (bio)stats to the conversation. Here are some of my recent and upcoming talks and presentations. Materials are available either by clicking on the links in the entries or the GIF wall!

Coming Soon to Theaters

  1. Invited Talk: Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy
    Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence
    Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference - November 2025
    Slides

  2. Invited Talk: Talking Over a Football Game:
    The Taylor Swift Effect on Football Podcast Popularity
    International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2025
    Slides

  3. Invited Talk: Modeling Misclassification: Exploring the Relationship
    between Diabetes and Access to Healthy Food
    International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2025
    Slides

Highlight Reel

  1. Contributed Talk: A Two-Pronged Approach for Identifying and Addressing Problematic Psychotropic Overprescription Patterns
    in the Child Welfare System
    Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management Conference
    October 2025
    Slides (jointly presented with T. Kuhn)

  2. Guest Lecture: Statistics in Your Own Backyard
    Day of Discovery, Vanderbilt University - September 2025
    Slides

  3. Contributed E-Poster: Linking Potentially Misclassified Healthy
    Food Access to Diabetes Prevalence
    Joint Statistical Meetings - August 2025
    Poster - Slides

  4. Invited Panel: Beyond Academia - Exploring Statistics Careers in
    Industry, Government, and More
    Joint Statistical Meetings - August 2025
    I’m chairing this panel!

  5. Contributed Poster: Visualizing Cost Effectiveness Analysis with
    Second-Generation Acceptability Curves
    ENAR Spring Meeting - March 2025
    Poster

  6. Guest Lecture: Statistical Ideas You Can Never Unsee
    PSYCH1130, Cornell University - March 2025
    Slides - App

  7. Invited Talk: Refining Your Path: Correcting for Misclassification in
    Healthy Food Access
    Department of Mathematics, University of Scranton - March 2025
    Slides

  8. Guest Lecture: From Idea to Conclusion: A Statistical Perspective
    School of Science and Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
    February 2025
    Slides - Example

  9. Invited Panel: Graduate Admissions Advice
    Electronic Undergraduate Student Research Conference
    November 2024

  10. Contributed Poster: Adjusting for covariate misclassification to quantify the relationship between diabetes and local access to healthy food
    Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference - October 2024
    Poster

  11. Invited Talk: For Better or For Worse: The First Kiss
    Effect on TV Ratings
    International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2024
    Slides - Recording

  12. Guest Lecture: Stats can be fun, I swear!
    PSYCH1130, Cornell University - September 2024
    Slides - App

  13. Master’s Thesis Defense: Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Food
    Wake Forest University - April 2024
    Slides

  14. Contributed Talk: Adjusting for Measurement Error to Quantify the Relationship Between Diabetes and Local Access to Healthy Food
    ENAR Spring Meeting - March 2024
    Slides

  15. Contributed Poster: Rate This Interruption: Using Interrupted Time Series Techniques to Analyze Popular Television
    Couples and Episode Ratings
    Women in Statistics and Data Science - October 2023
    Poster

  16. Contributed Poster: Music Feature Classification: Using Techniques of Machine Learning to Detect Genre
    MAA MathFest - August 2022
    Poster

  17. Contributed Poster: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    Joint Mathematics Meetings - April 2022
    Poster

  18. Contributed Poster: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference - August 2021
    Poster

  19. Featured Talk: Deal or No Deal: Modeling a Game Show with Utility Theory and Machine Learning
    Mount Stuart Mathematics Seminar Series - August 2021
    Slides

  20. Featured Talk: A Puck Above the Rest: The Effects of New Data on 2020 NHL Draft Decisions
    Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference - October 2020
    Slides

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