Ready for 4 2025-12-03: More Databot, and Package Management
I wrap up my exploration of Posit's Databot LLM and talk about the `rv` and `uv` package managers
Ready4R (2025-11-24): Giving Thanks For All the Videos
Hi Everyone, Another week of the newsletter. Mostly I'm reporting on videos this week, from PositConf and beyond. Databot on NHANES Databot on NHANES Part 1...
Ready for R (2025-10-29): Guilt is not a good motivator
Hi Everybody, Life has kept me busy as of late, and I've been questioning whether I have anything to contribute without adding to the noise. I tend to feel...
Ready4R (2025-09-15): To PositConf and Beyond!
Hi All, Just a quick note to let everyone know that I will be speaking at PositConf on Wednesday (9-17) at 10 AM EST on using WebR/Pyodide in your teaching....
Ready4R (2025-07-14): Summer Reading List
Sharing some summer data related reads for you all. If there's a great article you want to share, please add it to the comments! A personal history of the...
Ready for R (2025-06-30): High Level Explanations
Learn about communicating through high level explanations.
Ready4R (2025-06-06): Speaking the Language and Upcoming Events
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
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
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
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
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
Where I try to reframe unit testing as something approachable.
Ready4R (2025-02-02): Where to store passwords
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
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)
A Continuation of my PositConf recap.
Ready4R (2024-08-28): Quarto, Quarto, Quarto (at PositConf)!
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
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
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
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
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...