2019 Topic: Teaching Data Science as a College Writing Class
Biography:
Alex Lyford is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and he has been at Middlebury College since 2017. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Georgia, and his research areas of interest are machine learning, text analysis, statistics education, and math games. Alex’s hobbies include sports, hiking, and playing board games. Alex also hosts Board Game Night in the Math department once a month on Mondays.