Albert Y. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Statistical & Data Sciences at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. He is a co-author of the fivethirtyeight R package and ModernDive, an online textbook for introductory data science and statistics. His research interests include spatial epidemiology and model assessment and selection methods for forest ecology. Previously, Kim worked in the Search Ads Metrics Team at Google Inc. as well as at Reed, Middlebury and Amherst colleges. You can follow him on Twitter @rudeboybert. He is a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.