2025

old genetics articles are no longer open 2025-03-07

2024

cardiac ablation 2024-12-15

classifying pvc states 2024-09-28

covid is so weird 2024-09-25

premature ventricular complexes 2024-09-24

2022

we are on our own, COVID-wise 2022-09-06

support the UW Health nurses 2022-08-25

2021

wtf uw 5: "student" employees 2021-05-14

wtf uw 4: just a shitty corporation 2021-05-12

wtf uw 3: faculty are an impediment 2021-05-10

wtf uw 2: the new wisconsin idea is money 2021-05-07

wtf uw 1: how can you treat people like that? 2021-05-06

2020

debugging with docker and r-devel 2020-12-03

ten year reproducibility challenge 2020-02-07

reproducible abstract 2020-02-07

2019

data analysis principles 2019-08-15

reproducibility guidelines 2019-04-01

omg, binder! 2019-02-18

writing text in Minecraft with R 2019-02-11

another new laptop 2019-02-02

2018

twitter break 2018-10-05

learning a new programming language 2018-03-16

2017

these guys 2017-12-18

halloween 2017 2017-10-31

EOF within quoted string 2017-08-08

yay, yihui! 2017-08-03

miner and craft 2017-05-31

omg, bookdown! 2017-05-31

deeply nested functions 2017-05-30

ROpenSci Unconf 2017 2017-05-27

miniCRAN 2017-05-23

reading/writing biggish data, revisited 2017-05-11

updating d3panels and R/qtlcharts for D3 version 4 2017-05-11

crayon colors, simplified 2017-05-02

caching blogdown 2017-05-01

sqlite, feather, and fst 2017-04-30

old posts 2017-04-30

→ kbroman.org/blog 2017-04-30

new blog 2017-04-29

I thought maybe I was being paranoid 2017-01-30

2016

Halloween 2016 count 2016-10-31

My JSM 2016 itinerary 2016-07-27

Chris Walker at Faculty Senate 2016-04-15

I am a data scientist 2016-04-08

Action items in response to hateful shit 2016-04-05

Hateful shit at UW-Madison 2016-04-04

2015

Write unit tests! 2015-12-07

Fitting linear mixed models for QTL mapping 2015-11-24

Session info from R/Travis 2015-09-25

It's not you, it's me 2015-09-24

Reproducibility is hard 2015-09-09

God-awful conference websites 2015-08-05

Memories of past JSMs 2015-08-03

Randomized Hobbit 2015-06-22

MongoDB with D3.js 2015-06-22

Cheat sheets for R-based Software Carpentry course 2015-04-29

2015 AAAS in San Jose 2015-02-13

2014

Initial steps towards reproducible research 2014-12-04

The value of thesis intro/discussion 2014-12-03

Car crash stats revisited: My measurement errors 2014-11-03

Scholarly Publishing Symposium at UW-Madison 2014-10-30

Interactive plot of car crash stats 2014-10-30

Improved graphs of car crash stats 2014-10-29

Error notifications from R 2014-09-04

Notifications from R 2014-09-03

Yet another R package primer 2014-08-28

The mustache photo 2014-08-28

If I could do it over again, I'd self-publish 2014-08-12

Testing an R package's interactive graphs 2014-08-01

UseR 2014, days 3-4 2014-07-21

Why hadn't I written a function for that? 2014-07-16

2014 UseR conference, days 1-2 2014-07-02

hipsteR: re-educating people who learned R before it was cool 2014-05-15

Further points on crayon colors 2014-05-09

Two more points about crayon colors 2014-05-08

Crayon colors in R 2014-05-07

Reform academic statistics 2014-05-01

"[" with the apply() functions, revisited 2014-04-29

Simple web sites with GitHub Pages 2014-04-05

Startling lack of training in statistical computing 2014-03-14

Googling errors 2014-02-14

Emacs key bindings in MS Word 2014-02-12

I still don't like it 2014-02-09

Copyright of video lectures 2014-02-09

knitr in a knutshell tutorial 2014-02-06

2013

Things to avoid as a new faculty member 2013-12-05

OMICS Keynote? No! 2013-11-19

Fixing a font problem for XeLaTeX 2013-10-11

It was a really bad idea to use slides in that class 2013-10-08

Better-looking LaTeX/Beamer slides 2013-10-07

Complaints about the NIH grant review process 2013-10-02

Hiring computational biologists 2013-09-25

Code review 2013-09-25

Department websites 2013-09-11

Electronic lab notebook 2013-08-20

"[" and "[[" with the apply() functions 2013-08-20

Read the source code 2013-08-06

More on Chutes & Ladders 2013-05-20

Chutes & ladders: How long is this going to take? 2013-05-17

Stack Exchange: Why I dropped out 2013-05-13

Tutorials on git/github and GNU make 2013-05-10

"My" chromosome 8p inversion 2013-05-08

$18 for a two page PDF? I still don't get it. 2013-05-02

Methods before results 2013-04-29

Use meaningful URLs 2013-04-10

Knuth: Journal referees should assist authors 2013-04-08

Data science is statistics 2013-04-05

Beware of grep with a list 2013-04-03

x[[c(5,3)]] 2013-04-02

Thoughts on statistical consulting 2013-04-02

apply vs for 2013-04-02

LaTeX + Unicode → XeTeX 2013-03-19

ENAR highs and lows 2013-03-19

Data structures are important 2013-03-19

Why aren't all of our graphs interactive? 2013-03-16

Towards making my own papers reproducible 2013-03-10

What a waste of paper 2013-03-07

The Hopkins SPH logo, part 3: Karl's revenge 2013-03-06

Interactive eQTL plot with d3.js 2013-03-06

charset="utf-8" 2013-03-02

A bit more on the fire 2013-03-01

There's a fire in the building... 2013-02-28

UW-Madison joins Coursera 2013-02-21

Interactive MA plot 2013-02-11

Interactive graphics with d3.js 2013-02-08

D3.js difficulties 2013-02-08

Microsoft Office 2013-01-30

NIH to hire Associate Director for Data Science 2013-01-15

5/9 data journalists use Excel 2013-01-15

2012

I don't want your irrelevant communications either 2012-12-12

Child abuse and neglect is cancelled today 2012-11-29

The Hopkins SPH logo, part 2 2012-11-21

Wireless router woes 2012-11-20

The Hopkins SPH logo, part 1 2012-11-16

Puzzling typo 2012-10-27

Open access, animated 2012-10-25

Wired on statistics 2012-10-23

Web-enabled publishing environment 2012-10-23

Helmets and bike sharing programs 2012-10-23

The future of personalized medicine 2012-10-11

Curved arrows in R 2012-10-11

What, no coffee? 2012-09-28

Odd smoother 2012-09-27

Bottle filling station 2012-09-24

Hilarious graph 2012-09-11

How to evaluate faculty? 2012-09-08

Practicing talks 2012-06-22

Learning a new language 2012-06-21

A course in statistical programming 2012-05-25

Police 2012-05-24

What should I do badly? 2012-05-23

Should I be nice? 2012-05-18

Trees 2012-05-17

Genetic testing of sperm donors 2012-05-16

No commuter bikes on sidewalk 2012-05-08

Boring us to submission 2012-05-07

Rob Tibshirani and Andy Clark named to NAS 2012-05-03

Positive comments on peer review 2012-04-27

Microarrays suck 2012-04-25

ENAR 2012 2012-04-18

as.character() for rownames() 2012-03-22

Row names in data frames: beware of 1:nrow 2012-03-21

UW-Madison news item about Elsevier boycott 2012-02-21

Collaborative Cross papers 2012-02-16

I just refused an Elsevier review 2012-02-10

James Crow 2012-02-06

More on open access 2012-02-03

I hate reading other people's code 2012-02-03

Paying for scholarly publications 2012-02-02

Elsevier boycott 2012-02-01

Muted startup 2012-01-26

2011

12 deg F, but still good biking 2011-12-23

Here's what I need 2011-12-13

Revised bicycle laws in Wisconsin 2011-12-01

Statistics comic 2011-11-23

Sports statistics 2011-11-07

Halloween 2011 count 2011-10-31

Caffeine 2011-10-27

SUV-driving bastards 2011-10-25

Tips on grant writing 2011-10-21

Parachutes 2011-10-19

Fund people not projects? 2011-10-19

New title, new look 2011-10-15

Resizing windows in Lion 2011-10-14

Designer of C died 2011-10-14

Animal research 2011-10-12

Terry on communication 2011-10-03

Poster flop 2011-09-30

Seminars, bad and good 2011-09-29

Meetings vs work 2011-09-28

Ghastly R code 2011-09-27

Gamified 2011-09-26

Infographic 2011-09-22

Lager yeast 2011-09-19

My first fancy poster 2011-09-16

Quick labels within figures 2011-08-26

useR! Conference 2011 highlights 2011-08-20

The stupidest R code ever 2011-08-17

Introduction 2011-08-17