Benjamin Strong Baumer is a statistician and sabermetrician. He is a professor of statistical and data sciences at Smith College, and was formerly the statistical analyst for the New York Mets.

Life

Baumer grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts.[1] His parents are Polly Baumer and Don Baumer, a former magazine owner and professor of government at Smith College.[2][3][4]

Baumer received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Wesleyan University, and his masters in applied mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.[5][6] He completed a PhD at the City University of New York.[6]

Baumer is married to Cory Mescon, a public defender.[2][7]

Work

Baumer is known for his work in sabermetrics, including the book The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball with Andrew Zimbalist.[8][5] He was the statistical analyst for the New York Mets for eight years, between 2004-2012.[9][10] This was shortly after the publication of Moneyball, so the use of statistical analysis in baseball was still a new field.[9]

Since leaving the Mets, Baumer has been a professor at Smith College. Upon arrival at Smith, he taught in the mathematics department.[10] He was instrumental in the development of Smith's program in statistical and data sciences, and is now appointed in that program.[11] The program is one of the first undergraduate majors in data science in the United States, and the first at a women's college.[12][13] Baumer is also a member of the advisory board for the MassMutual data science initiative, a joint effort with Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and MassMutual.[14][15]

Baumer has written a textbook for use in data science courses, Modern Data Science with R.[16][17] He has several highly cited papers on pedagogical techniques for undergraduate data science education.[18][19] He has taught online data science courses for DataCamp.[20] He is a member of the national organizing committee for DataFest, a weekend-long data hackathon for undergraduate students. Baumer has also organized the FiveCollege Data Fest since 2014.[21][22][23]

He is the author of several R packages, including openWAR, a package for analyzing baseball data, and etl, a package for Extract, Transform, Load operations on medium data.[24][25][26]

Awards

Baumer received the 2016 Contemporary Baseball Analysis Award.[27] His project, The Great Analytics Rankings, was nominated for a 2015 EPPY award.[28]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Ben Baumer | Smith College". www.smith.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  2. ^ a b "Cory Mescon, Benjamin Baumer". The New York Times. 2010-06-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  3. ^ "Donald C. Baumer | Smith College". www.smith.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  4. ^ Amanda Drane (2015-12-28). "When an accident took Maggie Baumer of Northampton's arm she rebuilt her life to help others". Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  5. ^ a b David Low (2014-03-14). "Books by Gilbert '98, Baumer '00, Zimbalist P'02 Take Swings at Baseball History, Analytics". News @ Wesleyan.
  6. ^ a b "Ben Baumer". Statistics.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-26.
  7. ^ "Northampton (Dist PD) | Directories". www.publiccounsel.net. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  8. ^ "The Sabermetric Revolution". University of Pennsylvania Press.
  9. ^ a b Matthew Yaspan (2014-03-14). "An interview with former Mets stat guru Ben Baumer, Part 1". Amazin' Avenue.
  10. ^ a b Adam Rubin (2012-05-28). "Stat guru Baumer leaving Mets to teach". ESPN.
  11. ^ Cas Sweeney (2017-05-20). "A look into Statistical and Data Sciences- One of Smith's newest and fastest growing majors". Archived from the original on 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  12. ^ Emily Cutts (2018-02-20). "Smith College provost named president of the College of William & Mary". Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  13. ^ Steve Pierson (2014-12-08). "Universities and Colleges Creating New Undergraduate Statistics (and Related) Programs". American Statistical Association.
  14. ^ "Jim Kinney". MassLive. 2015-02-13.
  15. ^ "The Center for Data Science and MassMutual Host Local Data Scientists & Business Leaders". UMass Amherst Center for Data Science.
  16. ^ Baumer, Benjamin; Kaplan, Daniel; Horton, Nicholas (2017). Modern Data Science with R (1 ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
  17. ^ Baumer, Benjamin; Kaplan, Daniel; Horton, Nicholas (2021). Modern Data Science with R (2 ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
  18. ^ Baumer, Ben; Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Bray, Andrew; Loi, Linda; Horton, Nicholas (2014-01-01). "R Markdown: Integrating A Reproducible Analysis Tool into Introductory Statistics". Technology Innovations in Statistics Education. 8 (1). arXiv:1402.1894. doi:10.5070/T581020118.
  19. ^ Hardin, Johanna; Hoerl, Roger; Horton, Nicholas; Nolan, Deborah; Baumer, Ben; Hall-Holt, Olaf; Murrell, Paul; Peng, Roger; Roback, Paul; Temple Lang, Duncan; Ward, Mark (2015-10-02). "Data science in statistics curricula: Preparing students to "think with data"". The American Statistician. 69 (4): 343–353. arXiv:1410.3127. Bibcode:2014arXiv1410.3127H. doi:10.1080/00031305.2015.1077729. S2CID 88520302.
  20. ^ Gabriel de Selding (2017-02-01). "DataChats: An Interview with Ben Baumer". DataCamp.
  21. ^ Gould, Robert; Baumer, Ben; Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Bray, Andrew (2014-06-01). "Big Data Goes to College". Amstat News.
  22. ^ "ASA DataFest Contact".
  23. ^ Carl Bialik (2014-05-02). "The Students Most Likely to Take Our Jobs". FiveThirtyEight.
  24. ^ Ben Baumer (2014-03-17). "Introduction to openWAR". Exploring Baseball Data with R.
  25. ^ Ben Baumer. "An R package enabling the computation of openWAR using MLBAM data". GitHub.
  26. ^ "etl: Extract-Transform-Load Framework for Medium Data". Comprehensive R Archive Network. 17 May 2021.
  27. ^ "Baumer, Brudnicki, McMurray win 2016 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards". Society for American Baseball Research.
  28. ^ "Editor & Publisher Announces the 2015 EPPY Award Finalists". Editor & Publisher.
  29. ^ "The Sabermetric Revolution | Benjamin Baumer, Andrew Zimbalist". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  30. ^ "Modern Data Science with R". CRC Press. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  31. ^ "Analyzing Baseball Data with R, Second Edition". CRC Press. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
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