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Ready4R (2025-04-02): Learning Git and GitHub
April 2, 2025
Ready4R (2025-04-02): Learning Git and GitHub The Courage to Try New Things I'm reading a book called The Lightmaker's Manifesto about being an activist in...
Ready4R (2025-24-03): Naming Variables, More Unit Testing, and Better Tables
March 24, 2025
Naming Variables Naming variables is something that you've either spent a lot of time thinking about, or you've never thought about it. Crystal Lewis...
Ready4R (2025-03-03): SQL, Unit Tests, and Learning APIs
March 3, 2025
Intro to SQL course I have been teaching an Intro to SQL class for Fred Hutch learners. One of the things we've been working on as a training group is to...
Ready4R (2025-02-19): More about unit testing
February 19, 2025
Why I Teach I've always hated that phrase "Those who can't do, teach". Teaching technical subjects for beginners requires knowledge of the subject matter,...
Ready4R (2025-02-09): A gRadual Introduction to Unit Testing
February 9, 2025
Where I try to reframe unit testing as something approachable.
Ready4R (2025-02-02): Where to store passwords
February 2, 2025
How to not store passwords/API keys in your code I think that when we tell learners to not store credentials/passwords in code, we neglect to show them the...
Ready4R 2025-01-26: Starting Again
January 26, 2025
Data Snacks I haven't written a newsletter lately, because I started a new position in July: Director of Training and Community for the Office of the Chief...
Ready4R (2024-09-02): Stats, Stats, (and GitHub)
September 3, 2024
A Continuation of my PositConf recap.
Ready4R (2024-08-28): Quarto, Quarto, Quarto (at PositConf)!
August 28, 2024
PositConf highlights: new Quarto themes, scrollytelling with closeread, custom PDF outputs with Typst. Stay tuned for more!
Ready 4 R 2024-8-26: Some PositConf Highlights
August 26, 2024
Hello all, Two weeks ago I went up to Seattle for work and for PositConf. It was a great two days, had dinner and coffee with lots of people, met some new...
Ready4R (2024-07-31): Be a Sponsor
July 31, 2024
Time to get back on the horse. The past month I’ve been busy with multiple things; most importantly, I’ve been starting my new position as Director of...
Ready4R (2024-05-16): The Friction of EDA
May 27, 2024
Ready4R (2024-05-16): The Friction of EDA tabsets code folding Ready4R (2024-05-16): The Friction of EDA I’ve avoided talking about Large Language Models...
Ready4R (2024-05-08): My Struggles with Perfectionism
May 8, 2024
Ready4R (2024-05-08): My Struggles with Perfectionism tabsets code folding Ready4R (2024-05-08): My Struggles with Perfectionism Well, I did it again. I was...
Ready4R (2024/04/17): Building a Predictive Model
April 19, 2024
Ready4R (2024/04/17): Building a Predictive Model Apologies for the lateness of this week’s newsletter. Trying to condense building an entire model into a...
Ready4R (2024/04/08): Before You Model and Predict
April 9, 2024
Before You Predict Predictive modeling is often treated by non data scientists as a black box: you put in data and an answer comes out. This has become...
Ready4R (2024/04/02): At a Crossroads
April 2, 2024
What Should I Write About Next? Hello Everyone, I'm at a bit of a crossroads this week, and feeling undecisive about what to write about next. Help me figure...
Ready4R (03/28/2024): My Shiny Course on Rest of Us
March 29, 2024
Hi Everyone, Hope everyone's week is going well. I wanted to point out my new course introducing Shiny is now available through the Amazing R for the Rest of...
Ready4R (2024/03/25): Boxplots
March 26, 2024
Ready4R (2024/03/25): Boxplots On Boxplots I’d like to talk about one of the most important tools in your repertoire - the humble boxplot and its box....
Ready4R (2024/03/19): Spring Break This Week
March 19, 2024
Spring Break This Week Hi Everyone, It has been a hectic month behind the scenes, so I'm taking a break this week. Next week will be the promised post about...
Ready4R (2024/3/12): One of these things is not like the others: `{nullabor}`
March 12, 2024
Ready4R (2024/3/12): One of these things is not like the others: {nullabor} One of the questions that should haunt you when you find a pattern in the data...
Ready4R (2024-03-04): The Chronicles of `{naniar}`
March 5, 2024
Ready4R (2024-03-04): The Chronicles of {naniar} As promised, the topic this week is about missing values. I would personally like to thumbs down the person...
Ready4R (2024-02-25): Philosophy of EDA
February 26, 2024
Thanks everyone for your votes in the survey. This week's vote was for the Philosophy of EDA. Is there a Philosophy of Exploratory Data Analysis? Exploratory...
Ready4R (2024-02-19): {vtree} for you and me
February 19, 2024
{vtree}: exploring variable partitions Thank you to Andey Nunes-Brewster for introducing me to vtrees. A great tool to wonder at data with! Last week we...
Ready4R (02-12-2024): The Power of Crosstables
February 12, 2024
utf-8 works for most cases Forcing initial-scale shouldn't be necessary Use the latest (edge) version of IE rendering engine Disable auto-scale in iOS 10...
Ready for R (2024-02-05): Skim Your Data
February 5, 2024
utf-8 works for most cases Forcing initial-scale shouldn't be necessary Use the latest (edge) version of IE rendering engine Disable auto-scale in iOS 10...
Ready for R Newsletter - A New Start
February 2, 2024
Hi Everyone, This is the new Ready for R mailing list's home (buttondown), since tinyletter is being sunsetted. I have transferred over all email addresses...