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Norman Matloff
BornNorman Saul Matloff
(1948-12-16) December 16, 1948 (age 76)
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Known forAuthor of data science and R books
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Thesis Equilibrium Behavior in an Infinite Voting Model
Doctoral advisorThomas M. Liggett

Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis.

Early life

Norman Saul Matloff was born on December 16, 1948. Matloff received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Thomas M. Liggett. His dissertation was titled Equilibrium Behavior in an Infinite Voting Model.

Career

Matloff is the author of several books on computer science, statistics and programming, including

  • The Art of R Programming
  • The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD and Eclipse
  • Parallel Computing for Data Science: With Examples in R, C++ and Cuda
  • Fast Lane to Python: A Quick, Sensible Route to the Joys of Python Coding
  • Probability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + Data
  • Statistical Regression and Classification: From Linear Models to Machine Learning
  • Regression and Classification in R: A Careful, Thus Practical View

Matloff is also the author of many articles concerning machine learning, parallel computing and recommender systems. His just under 2000 citations amount to an h-index of 22.

Matloff also writes a blog. He views the increased use of H-1B visas in the high technology field as an unnecessary practice that harms the prospects of Americans in the field. His opinions have been published in US national media relating broader policy debates about immigration, education, discrimination, and business hiring practices.

Matloff previously served as the Editor in Chief of the R Journal. He is the author of several software packages for the programming language R and holds a conservative view of R's development, discouraging premature exposure of students to the newer Tidyverse dialect of R. His views are supported by other academic teachers of the R language including Holger K. von Juanne-Diedrich, Jasper McChesney and a few others. However, academic debate contains many arguments for the use of Tidyverse and the dialect has won over most certifications in R.

Awards

In 2002, together with two colleagues, he was awarded the annual Distinguished Public Service Awards at UC Davis.

"Matloff has testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on immigration issues and has served as an expert witness in age-discrimination lawsuits. He has advised federal and state agencies, including the U.S. departments of Commerce and State and the White House, on employment issues. He has served on a number of panels and committees on computer-industry hiring practices sponsored by industry, academia, government and public interest groups."

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Three faculty members honored for public service". UC Davis. May 10, 2002. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. ^ Norman Matloff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Norman Matloff". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  4. Matloff, Norman (May 3, 2017). "Stop Using Infosys As A Scapegoat For America's H-1B Visa Abuses". Fortune. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  5. Gans, Judith; Replogle, Elaine; Tichenor, Daniel (August 17, 2012). "Debates on US Immigration". WorldCat. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  6. Matloff, Norman (June 15, 2011). "Computer Sciences Sputnik Moment". NYTimes. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  7. Matloff, Norman (April 19, 2024). "Opinion: How California's 'math wars' are hurting Black and Latino students". LATimes. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  8. Matloff, Norman (July 8, 2014). "Tech Ethics". CNN. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  9. "The R Journal, June 2019" (PDF). journal.r-project.org. June 2019. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
  10. Matloff, Norm (January 7, 2022), TidyverseSkeptic, retrieved February 4, 2022
  11. "Why I don't use the Tidyverse – Learning Machines". December 10, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  12. McChesney, Jasper (October 15, 2020). "How I Teach R". Medium. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  13. Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Hardin, Johanna; Baumer, Benjamin S.; McNamara, Amelia; Horton, Nicholas J.; Rundel, Colin (2022). "An educator's perspective of the tidyverse". Technology Innovations in Statistics Education. 14. arXiv:2108.03510. doi:10.5070/T514154352. S2CID 236956878.

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