Chester Ismay

Chester Ismay completed his PhD in statistics from Arizona State University in 2013. He has previously worked in a variety of roles including as Senior Director of Data Science Education at a tech bootcamp, as an actuary at Scottsdale Insurance Company (now Nationwide E&S/Specialty), as a freelance data science consultant, as a Data Science Evangelist and Technical Trainer, and as a professor at Ripon College, Reed College, and Pacific University. In addition to his work for ModernDive, he also contributed as initial developer of the infer R package and is author and maintainer of the thesisdown R package. He enjoys teaching people of all ages about R, Python, and data science, cooking, traveling, playing pickleball, and spending time exploring new places with friends.