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Ready4R (2025-06-06): Speaking the Language and Upcoming Events
June 6, 2025
Speaking Your Audience's Language If there is one thing my informatics training has taught me, it is that it is important to speak the language of your...
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...