Statistician with a passion for data science and open software

I’m an academic statistician at the Australian National University in Canberra. I build open-source tools, mostly R packages, that make statistical methods easier for practitioners to use.

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Editor in ChiefThe R Journal ANU LeadAnalytics for the Australian Grains Industry

Experimental design Mixed models Data visualisation Visual inference Statistical software Bioinformatics Plant breeding Emerging analytics

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Upcoming talks

Nov262026Keynote talkAustralian Data Science Network Conference

Upcoming workshops

There are currently no workshops planned.

Past workshops include:

  • Introduction to Large Language Models for Statisticians / R Users
  • Introduction to R Programming
  • Introduction to Statistics with R
  • Data Visualisation with R
  • Data Wrangling with R
  • Reproducible Research with R Markdown / Quarto
  • Design and Analysis of Experiments
  • Generalised Linear Models

If you would like me to provide training workshops, please contact me.

Recent publications

  • 2026 QTLs for heat-induced stomatal anatomy underpin gas exchange variation in field-grown wheat E Chaplin, E Tanaka, A Merchant, B Sznajder, R Trethowan, W Salter · Frontiers in Plant Science
  • 2026 Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse E Tanaka · Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics
  • 2026 Automated residual plot assessment with the R package autovi and the Shiny application autovi. web W Li, D Cook, E Tanaka, S VanderPlas, K Ackermann · Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics
  • 2026 Field-based dissection of stomatal anatomy and conductance reveals stable QTL under drought and heat in wheat E Chaplin, E Tanaka, A Merchant, B Sznajder, R Trethowan, W Salter · bioRxiv
  • 2025 Current State and Prospects of R-Packages for the Design of Experiments E Tanaka, D Amaliah · The R Journal