Dr. Tal Galili has unbounded enthusiasm for teaching and sharing his expertise in R and statistics. He’s a Lecturer at Tel Aviv University in Israel, taught courses in introduction to computer science with R and various statistics courses. Tal has received multiple awards for his teaching there. In addition to writing peer-reviewed articles, Tal is also an active blogger in the R and statistics communities. He’s the founder of R-bloggers, a meta-blog which serves over 45,000 subscribers by aggregating R related posts from over 700 blogs. He has published several R packages, and writes the blog R-statistics himself.
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Dr. Tal Galili
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July 2012
Education
- PhD in statistics, Tel Aviv University
- MA in statistics (specialty in biostatistics),Tel Aviv University
- BA in statistics and General Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Publications
- Package ‘installr’, T Galili, B Rowlingson, B Hejblum, F Schonbrodt, G Grothendieck, … 2017
- Splitting matters: how monotone transformation of predictor variables may improve the predictions of decision tree models, T Galili, I Meilijson, arXiv preprint, arXiv:1611.04561 2016
- Identifying the ligated amino acid of archaeal tRNAs based on positions outside the anticodon, T Galili, H Gingold, S Shaul, Y Benjamini, RNA 22 (10), 1477-1491 2016
- Package ‘dendextend’, T Galili, G Simpson, G Jefferis 2016
- dendextend: an R package for visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical clustering, T Galili, Bioinformatics, btv428 2015
- Impaired social processing in autism and its reflections in memory: A deeper view of encoding and retrieval processes, RS Brezis, T Galili, T Wong, JI Piggot, Journal of autism and developmental disorders 44 (5), 1183-1192 2014
- Categorize, cluster, and classify: a 3-c strategy for scientific discovery in the medical informatics platform of the human brain project, T Galili, A Mitelpunkt, N Shachar, M Marcus-Kalish, Y Benjamini, International Conference on Discovery Science, 73-86 2014