Writings

Here are some links to recent writing I've done, both in peer-reviewed publications and on blogs.

Publications

• McNamara, A. Teaching modeling in introductory statistics: A comparison of formula and tidyverse syntaxes. Under review. pre-print.
• Cetinkaya-Rundel, M., Hardin, J., Baumer, B., McNamara, A., Horton, N.J., Rundel, C. An educator's perspective of the tidyverse Under review. pre-print.
• McNamara, A. Community engagement and subgroup meta-knowledge: Some factors in the soul of a community. Computational Statistics, Vol. 34, Issue 4 (pre-print and reproducible code)
• McNamara, A. Key attributes of a modern statistical computing tool, The American Statistician, Vol. 73, Issue 4. (free e-prints until they are gone, pre-print, blog post)
• McNamara, A., and Horton, N. J. Wrangling categorical data in R, The American Statistician, Vol. 72, Issue 1 (free e-prints until they are gone, pre-print in PeerJ Collection)
• McNamara, A., Horton, N.J., Baumer, B. Greater data science at baccaleureate institutions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 26, No 4. (free e-prints, until they are gone)
• McNamara, A. Considering the gap between learning and doing statistics. International Handbook of Research in Statistics Education. In chapter 15, The Future of Research in Statistics Education. (2015)
• McNamara, A. Barriers and opportunities for nurturing statistical thinking before college. CHANCE, Vol. 28, Issue 4. (2015)
• McNamara, A. and Hansen, M. Teaching Data Science to Teenagers. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Teaching Statistics. (2014).
• McNamara, A. Dynamic Documents with R and knitr (book review). Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 56, Book Review 2. (2014).
• Catllá, A.J., McNamara, A. and Topaz, C. M. Instabilities and Patterns in Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Layers. Physical Review E, Vol. 85, Issue 2. (2012).

Blog posts

• McNamara, A. Data visualisation by hand: drawing data for your next story. DataJournalism.com, March 24 2021.
• McNamara, A. Counting commits and peer code review. Teach Data Science, July 28, 2019.