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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Altieri N, Barter RL, Duncan J, Dwivedi R, Kumbier K, Li X, Netzorg R, Park B, Singh C, Tan YS, Tang T, Wang Y, Yu B (2021). Curating a COVID-19 Data Repository and Forecasting County-Level Death Counts in the United States. Harv Data Sci Rev, (Special Issue 1).
  2. Yu B, Barter RL (2020). The Data Science Process: One Culture. J Am Stat Assoc, 115(530), 672-674.
  3. 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)
  4. 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)

Book

  1. Yu B, Barter RL (In Press). Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making. MIT Press.