about.Rmd

# About the Author

**Roger D. Peng** is a Professor of Biostatistics at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a
Co-Founder of the [Johns Hopkins Data Science
Specialization](http://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1),
which has enrolled over 1.5 million students, the [Johns Hopkins
Executive Data Science
Specialization](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/executive-data-science),
the [Simply Statistics blog](http://simplystatistics.org/) where he
writes about statistics and data science for the general public, and
the [Not So Standard Deviations](https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast)
podcast. Roger can be found on Twitter and GitHub under the user name
[@rdpeng](https://twitter.com/rdpeng).