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is an associate professor in bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has a background in math and computer science. For the past decade, his main focus has been on genetics and evolutionary studies, particularly comparative genomics, speciation, and gene flow between emerging species. He has published
The Joys of Hashing
,
Domain-Specific Languages in R
,
Beginning Data Science in R
,
Functional Programming in R
, and
Metaprogramming in R
, all from Apress, as well as other books.
About the Technical Reviewer
Dwight Barry
is a principal data scientist at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, WA, USA. He’s worked in analytics for more than 20 years, in both academia and industry, in the fields of health care, hospital administration, clinical and hospital care, environmental science, and emergency management.
