I was just talking to a student who mentioned she didn’t know Jenny Bryan was on Twitter. She is and she is an awesome person to follow. I also realized that I hadn’t seen a good list of women on Twitter who do stats/data. So I thought I’d make one. This list is what I could make in 15 minutes based on my own feed and will, with 100% certainty, miss really people. Can you please add them in the comments and I’ll update the list?
- [@JennyBryan](https://twitter.com/JennyBryan) (Jenny Bryan) statistics professor at UBC, teaching a great intro to data science class right now.
- [@hspter](http://twitter.com/hspter) (Hilary Parker) data analyst at Etsy (former Hopkins grad student!) and co-creator (I think) of #rcatladies, also wrote this nice post on writing an R package from scratch
- [@acfrazee](https://twitter.com/acfrazee) (Alyssa Frazee) Ph.D. student at Hopkins, writes a great blog on data stuff, works on statistical genomics
- @emsweene57 (Elizabeth Sweeney) - Hopkins Ph.D. student, developer of methods for neuroimaging.
- [@hmason](https://twitter.com/hmason) (Hilary Mason) - currently running one of my favorite startups Fast Forward Labs, but basically needs no introduction, one of the biggest names in data science right now.
- [@sherrirose](https://twitter.com/sherrirose) (Sherri Rose) - former Hopkins postdoc, now at Harvard. Literally wrote the book on targeted learning.
- [@eloyan_ani](https://twitter.com/eloyan_ani) (Ani Eloyan) - Hopkins Biostat faculty, working on neuroimaging and EMRs. Lead the team that won the ADHD-200 competition.
- [@mrogati](https://twitter.com/mrogati) (Monica Rogati) - Former Linkedin data scientist, now running the data team at Jawbone.
- [@annmariastat](https://twitter.com/annmariastat) (AnnMaria De Mars) - runs the Julia group, also world class judoka, writes one of my favorite stats/education blogs.
- [@kara_woo](https://twitter.com/kara_woo) (Kara Woo) - Works at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and maintains their projections blog
- @jhubiostat (Betsy Ogburn) - Hopkins biostat faculty, not technically her account. But she is the reason this is the funniest/best academic department twitter account out there.
- @lovestats (Annie Pettit) - Does surveys and data quality/MRX work. If you are into MRX, check out her blog.
- @ProfEmilyOster (Emily Oster) - Econ professor at U Chicago. Has been my favorite writer for FiveThirtyEight since their relaunch.
- @monachalabi (Mona Chalabi) - writer for FiveThirtyEight, I like her “Am I normal” series of posts.
- @lisaczhang (Lisa Zhang)- cofounder of Polychart.
- [@notawful](https://twitter.com/notawful) (Jessica Hartnett) - professor at Gannon University, writes a great blog on teaching statistics.
- @AliciaOshlack (Alicia Oshlack) - researcher at Murdoch Children’s research institute, one of the real superstars in computational genomics.
- [@AmeliaMN](https://twitter.com/AmeliaMN) (Amelia McNamara) - graduate student at UCLA, works on the Mobilize project and other awesome data education initiatives in LA school system.
- [@leighadlr](https://twitter.com/leighadlr) (LEIGH ARINO DE LA RUBIA) Editor in chief of DataScience.LA
- [@inesgn](https://twitter.com/inesgn) (Ines Germendia) - data scientist working on official statistics at Basque Statistics - Eustat
- [@sgrifter](https://twitter.com/sgrifter) (Sandy Griffith) - Biostat Ph.D., fellow #rcatladies creator, professor at the Cleveland Clinic in quantitative medicine
- [@ladamic](https://twitter.com/ladamic) (Lada Adamic) - professor at Michigan, teacher of really highly regarded social network analysis class on Coursera, now at Facebook (I think)
- [@stephaniehicks](https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks) - (Stephanie Hicks) postdoc in compbio at Harvard, lead teaching assistant for Data Science course at Harvard.
- [@ansate](https://twitter.com/ansate) - (Melissa Santos) manager of Hadoop infrastructure at Etsy, maintainer of the women in data list below.
- <@lauramclay> (Laura McClay) - professor of operations research at UW Madison, writes a blog with an amazing name: Punk Rock Operations Research.
- [@bioannie](https://twitter.com/bioannie) (Laura Hatfield) - professor at Harvard, also has one of the best data titles I’ve ever heard: Princess of Bayesia
- [@kaythaney](https://twitter.com/kaythaney) (Kaitlin Thaney) - director of the Mozilla Science Lab, also works with Data Kind UK.
- <@laurieskelly> (Laurie Skelly)- Data scientist at Data Scope analytics
- [@bo_p](https://twitter.com/bo_p) (Bo Peng) - Data scientist at Data Scope analytics
- [@siminaboca](https://twitter.com/siminaboca) (Simina Boca) - former Hopkins Ph.D. student, now assistant professor at Georgetown in Biomedical informatics.
- [@HelenPowell01](https://twitter.com/HelenPowell01) (Helen Powell) - postdoc in Biostatistics at Hopkins, works on statistics for relationship between air pollution and health.
- [@victoriastodden](https://twitter.com/victoriastodden) (Victoria Stodden) - one of the leaders in the legal and sociological aspects of reproducible research.
- [@hannawallach](https://twitter.com/hannawallach) (Hanna Wallach) - CS professor and researcher at Microsoft Research NY.
- [@kralljr](https://twitter.com/kralljr) (Jenna Krall) - postdoctoral fellow in environmental statistics at Emory (Hopkins grad!)
- [@LssLi](https://twitter.com/lssli) (Shanshan Li) - professor of Biostatistics at IUPI, works on neuroimaging, aging and epidemiology (Hopkins grad!)
- [@aheineike](https://twitter.com/aheineike) (Amy Heineike) - director of mathematics at Quid, also excellent interviewee.
- [@mathbabedotorg](https://twitter.com/mathbabedotorg) (Cathy O’Neil) program director of the Lede Program at Columbia’s J School, writes a very popular data science blog.
- [@ameiliashowalter](https://twitter.com/ameliashowalter) (Amelia Showalter) Former director of digital analytics for Obama2012. Data consultant.
- [@minebocek](https://twitter.com/minebocek) (Mine Cetinkaya Rundel) Professor at Duke, teaches the great statistics MOOC from them based on OpenIntro.
- [@YennyWebbV](https://twitter.com/@YennyWebbV) (Yenny Webb Vargas) Ph.D. student in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, one of the founders of Bmore Biostats and a blogger
- [@OMGannaks](https://twitter.com/@OMGannaks) (Anna Smith) - former data scientist at Bitly, now analytics engineer at rentherunway.
- [@kristin_linn](https://twitter.com/@kristin_linn) (Kristin Linn) - postdoc at UPenn, formerly NC State grad student, part of the awesome statistics band (!) [@TheFifthMoment](https://twitter.com/TheFifthMoment)
- [@ledell](http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~ledell/) (Erin LeDell) - grad student in Biostatistics at Berkeley working on machine learning, co-author of subsemble R package.
- [@atmccann](https://twitter.com/atmccann) (Allison McCann) - writer for FiveThirtyEight. Data viz person, my favorite post of hers is how to debug a jet
- [@ReginaNuzzo](https://twitter.com/@ReginaNuzzo) (Regina Nuzzo) - stats prof and freelance writer. Her piece on p-values in Nature just won the statistical reporting award.
- [@jrfAleks](https://twitter.com/jrfAleks) (Aleks Collingwood) - programme manager for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Working on poverty and aging.
- [@abarysh](https://twitter.com/@abarysh) (Anastasia Baryshnikova) - princeton Lewis-Sigler fellow, co-leader of major project on large international yeast knockout study.
- [@sharon000](Sharon%20Machlis) (Sharon Machlis) - online managing editor at Computerworld.
- [@2plus2make5](https://twitter.com/2plus2make5) (Emma Pierson) - Stanford undergrad, Rhodes Scholar, frequent contributor to FiveThirtyEight and other data blogs.
- [@mandyfmejia](https://twitter.com/mandyfmejia) (Mandy Mejia) - Johns Hopkins PhD student, brain imaging analyzer, also writes a great blog!
I have also been informed that these Twitter lists are probably better than my post. But I’ll keep updating my list anyway cause I want to know who all the right people to follow are!