Data science as an atomic habit
Several years ago, I lived at the Zen Center of New York City, a Zen temple focused on supporting lay practitioners (folks who practice …
Estimating sample size for precision: precisely 0.1.0
I’m pleased to announce that precisely 0.1.0 is now on CRAN! precisely is a study planning tool to calculate sample size based on …
Replicating a New York Times Table of Swedish COVID-19 deaths with gt
I recently read an article in the New York Times about excess deaths in Sweden during the coronavirus outbreak. As opposed to many of …
Introducing ymlthis: a toolkit for working with YAML
I’m pleased to announce that ymlthis 0.1.0, my project for my summer internship at RStudio, is now on CRAN! ymlthis is a toolkit to …
Tidy causal DAGs with ggdag 0.2.0
I’m pleased to announce that ggdag 0.2.0 is now on CRAN! ggdag links the dagitty package, which contains powerful algorithms for …
#SER2019 In Review
The annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER) took place June 18-21. The past two years, I’ve collected Twitter …
Introducing the partition package
I’m pleased to announce the CRAN release of partition 0.1.0. partition is a fast and flexible data reduction framework that minimizes …
Why should I use the here package when I'm already using projects?
TL;DR: Why should I use here? The here package bottles up several small best practices for referencing files in your project. You could …
When interaction is not interaction: confounding and measurement error
Last week, I presented ggdag at JSM in Vancouver. As you can imagine, I had a lot of conversations with people about DAGs, confounding, …
ggdag 0.1.0
I’m pleased to announce the release of ggdag 0.1.0 on CRAN! ggdag uses the powerful dagitty package to create and analyze structural …
