About Data Science Exploration
Authors of Data Science Exploration

Tori Ellison
Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Statistics Department
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Julie Deeke
Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Statistics Department
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STAT 207
This website is structured around the STAT 207: Data Science Exploration course that has been taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since Fall 2021.
Course Staff
We have had many graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate course assistants who have helped guide students in the course.
The graduate teaching assistants include Jordan Deklerk, David Kim, Yuhan Li, Yuxuan Liu, Kevin Maddox, Chandler Nielsen, Tommy Tang, Dongxiao Wu, Jim Yan, Junseok Yang, Zihao Yang, Kaihong Zhang, and Wenzhuo Zhao.
The undergraduate course assistants include Sidharth Anand, Jiya Chachan, Xiangrui Deng, Yang Duan, Afnan Dzaharudin, Hunter Farnham, Suvinay Goyal, Eric Hinch, Mengyue Huang, Bryant Hsiung, Divya Jain, Khushi Jain, Neha Jain, Seo Yeon (Kate) Jung, Adarsh Kamath, Sriyella Marreddy, Jier (Jimmy) Maio, Freddy Platinus, Utkarsh Prasad, Kris Png, Laila Riba, Nathaphol (Kenny) Rungbanapan, Ribhav Sahu, Seungyi (Fiona) Seo, Smriti, Sabina Tong, Tuan Tran, Sumedh Vaidyanathan, Harshi Vetrivel, Ruben Verghese, Lisa Wang, Donlapun (Dorothy) Wongkarnta, Changrong Wu, Xulong (Justin) Xiao, Mingrui Xu, Junseok Yang, Zijun Yu, Kelly Yuen, Deyi Zhang, Kevin Zhao, and Xinkai Zhao.
You can find information about some of our course staff through the following sites:
The following undergraduate course assistants have further assisted us with content editing and formatting for this website: Afnan Dzaharudin, Bryant Hsiung, Fiona Seo, and Deyi Zhang.
We'd like to thank all of the graduate and undergraduate students who have assisted our students during the teaching of this course over multiple semester.
Acknowledgements
We'd like to thank the first instructor of STAT 207, Douglas Simpson, who provided some of the first outlines and the first set of case studies for STAT 207. We'd also like to thank the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, including Associate Deans Matt Ando and Shaowen Wang, who have supported the development of this website and continued innovation in STAT 207.