This is a website repository for a children's book titled 'Super Women: Statisticians and Data Scientists' edited by Stephanie Hicks and Jessica Crowell and illustrated by Jessica Crowell.
You can read more about the book here:
This book features a group of statistician and data scientists who identify as a woman. On each page of the book, one woman is featured with the left side of the page describing the individual when she was young and the right side of the page describing the individual today.
The book was edited by Stephanie Hicks and Jessica Crowell and illustrated by Jessica Crowell with an incredible amount of support from the Super Women Team.
Jessica Crowell is a videographer and editor, trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and now in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, where she works with faculty and staff on multimedia projects as part of work in the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab.
- Stephanie Hicks is a problem-forward scientist who uses statistics and data science tools to solve real-world problems in the biomedical data sciences. She is passionate about contributing to and supporting initiatives that promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
With this book, we aim to provide a playground of imagination for children to learn about statistics and data science by highlighting the stories of several individuals in these fields. We hope this inspires a new generation to learn more about these fields and how they can be used to help make the world better and brighter.
The book is freely available now to download as a PDF on the Get the book page.
We are in the process of working with the American Statistical Association to make the book available on Amazon, in case someone would like a physical copy. Proceeds from this will go towards supporting the Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship.
The illustrations in the book and website and narrative text in the book are licensed under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This means that these specific parts of the book and website cannot be modified or remixed, if you use our materials.
Everything else in this project is licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. In summary, this means that you can adapt the material to suit your needs as long as you cite the original project and authors.
- Scarlett Bellamy
- Jenny Bryan
- Di Cook
- Gertrude Cox
- Gabriela De Queiroz
- Francesca Dominici
- Sally Morton
- Bhramar Mukherjee
- Florence Nightingale
- Talithia Williams
- Bin Yu
Stephanie Hicks, PhD
- Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Faculty member, JHU Data Science Lab (DaSL)
- Co-founder, R-Ladies Baltimore
- stephaniehicks.com