Welcome!

Thank you for taking the time to find out more about me. Below are the main hightlights of my life as well as the descriptions of all the available resources you can find here.


Faith

The most important part of my life is my faith and devotion to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My wife invited me to attend her church when we were dating back in college and God took care of the rest. I have been involved in many youth ministries including being a commissioner in Upward basketball and leading a Bible study for the Millennial generation. To find out more about my journey please click below!

Family

I am blessed to be both a husband to an amazing wife and father to wonderful children! The highlight of my day is to come home and be with them. Whether it is reading a book with them, playing outside, or watching as my wife and I try to introduce them to video games, nothing beats spending time with my family.

Faculty

I have the pleasure of being an Associate Professor of Analytics at the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University. Here I get to live out my passion of innovating the current structure of education to better prepare a modern work force to be ready to communicate and handle a data driven future. I get to teach courses in statistics, mathematics, financial risk, and operations research for the nation's first Master of Science in Analytics degree program.


Data4God

I created Data4God to connect my faith (the most important part of my life) to my career. Here I will have videos talking about connecting a career in data science and analytics to faith as well as interview other data science professionals who are believers in Christ. I also want to be a bridge for other believers in the data science field to the rest of the world. It includes:

  • Videos on Christianity in data science
  • Interviews with Christian data scientists and leaders of Christian organizations using data
  • Projects that I have had the pleasure working with Christian organizations with

I hope you click on the website and enjoy this journey with me!


Data Science Resources

Analytics Code Decks

Are you looking for resources to help solve data science problems? These code decks take the following topics and explain the concept as well as go through the solution in multiple softwares!

YouTube Channel

Data is impacting large portions or our lives! Data science and analytics try to help sift through this data to help drive decisions and measure impacts. This YouTube channel tries to explain techniques for data science in simple terms so everyone can understand what is happening as well as help discuss overall impacts data has on our lives.

Training

I love the ability to teach other individuals. Not all training has to happen in a university setting though. I have been blessed to have created courses and trainings in a variety of places in both time series and fraud analytics.



Contact Details

901 Main Campus Dr, Suite 230
Raleigh, NC 27606

Phone: 919.513.4076

Email: aric_labarr@ncsu.edu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariclabarr/