Talks and Workshops

Here is a list of the talks and workshops I have given in the last 5 years:

2025

  • Timbers, T. (2025). Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education. Math Faculty Teaching Seminar, University of Waterloo (Virtual) Local
  • Timbers, T., Burak, K. (2025). Introduction to machine learning in Python with Scikit-learn. posit::conf (Atlanta, GA) International
  • Timbers, T. (2025). Designing and delivering data science programs for different audiences. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (Saskatoon, SK) National

2024

  • Timbers, T, Chen, D. (2024). Introduction to machine learning in Python with Scikit-learn. posit::conf (Seattle, WA) International
  • Timbers, T. (2024). Societal Pressures for Trustworthy Data Analysis. Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) (Toronto, ON) International
  • Burak, K., Chen, D., Rodriguez-Arelis, A., Timbers, T. (2024). How to create and distribute R packages (workshop). Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (St. John’s, NL) National
  • Timbers, T., Campbell, T. (2024). Reflections on scaling an Introduction to Data Science. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (St. John’s, NL) National

2023

  • Timbers, T. (2023). 10 simple rules for teaching Data Science. International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science 2023 (Virtual Conference) International
  • Timbers, T. (2023). Opinionated practices for teaching reproducibility: motivation, guided instruction, and practice. Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) (Toronto, ON) International

2022

  • Timbers, T. (2022). 10 simple rules for teaching R for Data Science (Keynote). Cascadia R Conference (Virtual Conference) Local
  • Timbers, T. (2022). Reproducibility: you can do data analysis without it, but should you? Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) (Washington, DC, USA) International
  • Campbell, T., Lee, M., Timbers, T. (2022). Creating Open Resources for an Introductory Data Science Course. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference) National Burr, W., Timbers, T. (2022). Reproducibility Workshop. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (Virtual Conference) National

2021

  • Timbers, T. (2021). Opinionated practices for teaching reproducibility: motivation, guided instruction and practice. Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Ontario / University of Toronto Statistical Sciences Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) (remote hosted in Toronto) Local
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Opinionated practices for teaching reproducibility: motivation, guided instruction and practice. Centre de recherches mathématiques – Université de Montréal statistics colloquium series (remote hosted in Montreal) Local
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Teaching Data Science Authentically Using Open Source Educational Resources. Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) (Virtual Conference) International
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Automated feedback with Jupyter, nbgrader and R. Statistical Education Workshop on Open Source Solutions for Online Teaching, Assessment and Grading. Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting (remote hosted in Canada) National
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Introduction to reticulate. R Ladies Tunis (remote hosted in Tunis, Tunisia) Local
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Programming with tidyverse functions. R Ladies Vancouver (remote hosted in Vancouver, BC) Local
  • Timbers, T. (2021). Teaching reproducibility: motivation, direct instruction and practice. Toronto Data Workshop on Reproducibility, University of Toronto. (remote hosted in Toronto) Local