di yoong

is a Social Sciences Librarian at CMU. In this role, they primarily work with folx in Psychology, Social and Decision Sciences, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and the Tartan Scholars program on their research and teaching.

As part of their practice to create accessible ways to learn coding and programing and improve data literacies, they are involved with the Evidence Synthesis Program and the Data and Code Support Team, which support the broader community in meta-research, open source coding languages and using data science tools. They have also created a series of workshops and facilitate a R user group, and are co-organizing the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at CMU.

In their previous role as a Digital Fellow (The GC, CUNY), they have organized workshops, institutes, and events, and facilitated consultations around data literacies, ethics, and non-conventional academic publications. They also developed the Foundations of Data Sciences course for non-computer science undergraduates at City College New York, CUNY that focused on a humanties and social science approach to data science.