About me
I am an associate professor of statistics and data science at Winona State University, located in the heart of the Mississippi River driftless region in Winona, MN. My passion is teaching: specifically how to understand data and its limitations; generally how to foster hard thinking and deep understanding. Other professional interests include statistical consulting and data visualization best principles and practice. Check out my Tableau Public profile for examples of my own and student visualizations.
Outside work, I enjoy spending time outdoors (especially wilderness backpacking); racquetball; baseball; baking sourdough; gardening; board and card games; craft beer; fishing; hunting; and spending time with my wife and two boys.
- Data visualization
- Statistics and data science education
- Statistical consulting
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Ph.D. in Biostatistics, 2014
University of Washington
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B.S. in Statistics, 2009
Winona State University
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B.A. in Music Performance, 2009
Winona State University
Recent Posts
Talks and workshops
Workshops
- Data Visualization: Principles and Applications in R, Tableau, and Python
- Pre-conference workshop at SDSS 2019. Bellevue, WA. With Todd Iverson
- A core data science curriculum for undergraduates
- Pre-conference workshop at USCOTS 2019. Penn State, PA. Co-authors: Brant Deppa; Tisha Hooks; Todd Iverson; April Kerby; Chris Malone
Presentations
- Improved behavioral classification of flight behavior informs risk modeling of bald eagles at wind facilities in Iowa.
- Wind Wildlife Research Meeting. December 2020. With Missy Braham, Adam Duerr, Manuela Huso, Todd Katzner, Tricia Miller, and Sara Schmuecker.
- Teaching the Gestalt Principles to Help Undergraduate Students Design Effective Tables and
Graphs
- Symposium on Statistics and Data Science 2020.
- Extending the Grammar of Graphics beyond ggplot2.
- Symposium on Statistics and Data Science 2019. With Todd Iverson and Chris Malone.
- Great public data sources with social justice applications
- St. Olaf College presentation. March 2018
- ASA REU Experiences at Winona State University
- Joint Statistical Meetings. With Brant Deppa, Tisha Hooks, and Chris Malone. July 2017
- A data visualization course for undergraduate data science students
- CAUSE webinar. Dec 2016
- Melding data with social justice in undergraduate statistics and data science courses | Paper | Slides
- IASE roundtable. July 2016
Teaching
Courses I am teaching or have previously taught below. Reach out if you are interested in specific course materials for a certain course.
- STAT 110: Fundamentals of statistics
- STAT 303: Introduction to engineering statistics
- STAT 310: Intermediate statistics
- STAT 370: Statistical consulting and communication
- DSCI 210: Data science
- DSCI 310: Data summarization and visualization
- STAT 365: Experimental design and analysis
- STAT 405: Biostatistics
- STAT 450: Mathematical statistics I
- STAT 460: Mathematical statistics II
Contact
sbergen at winona dot edu