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Rebecca L. Barter

Rebecca L. Barter, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Internal Medicine

Divisions: Epidemiology

Rebecca Barter, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology. Dr Barter's work at the University of Utah focuses on campus-wide data science education as well as broad applications of statistical and data science techniques, such as data visualization, causal inference, machine learning, and AI, to a range of problems in healthcare. Dr Barter received her PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019.

Education History

Postdoctoral Training University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Scholar
Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley
Fellow
Graduate Training University of California, Berkeley
PhD
University of Sydney
BSc Advanced

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Barter RL, Yu B (2018). Superheat: An R package for creating beautiful and extendable heatmaps for visualizing complex data. J Comput Graph Stat, 27(4), 910-922. (Read full article)
  2. Barter RL, Schramm SJ, Mann GJ, Yang YH (2014). Network-based biomarkers enhance classical approaches to prognostic gene expression signatures. BMC Syst Biol, 8 Suppl 4, S5. (Read full article)