old posts

In moving away from my old wordpress site, I thought I’d look back at some of my old posts there. Here are the most frequently visited ones.

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

• MongoDB with D3.js, 2015-06-22

• Crayon colors in R, 2014-05-07

• apply vs for, 2013-04-02

• Thoughts on statistical consulting, 2013-04-02

• Notifications from R, 2014-09-03

• A course in statistical programming, 2012-05-25

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

• Interactive graphics with d3.js, 2013-02-08

• I am a data scientist, 2016-04-08

There are a bunch of other things that I’ve written and quite like. Here’s a long list:

• The stupidest R code ever, 2011-04-17

• Microarrays suck, 2012-04-25

• Curved arrows in R, 2012-10-11

• The Hopkins SPH logo, parts 1 (2012-11-16), 2 (2012-11-21), and 3 (2013-03-06)

• Towards making my own papers reproducible, 2013-03-10

• Methods before results, 2013-04-29

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

• Data science is statistics, 2013-04-05

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

• Stack exchange: why I dropped out, 2013-05-13

• Hiring computational biologists, 2013-09-25

• Department websites, 2013-09-11

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

• Reform academic statistics, 2014-05-01

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

• Improved graphs of car crash stats, 2014-10-29

• Interactive plot of car crash stats, 2014-10-30

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

• God-awful conference websites, 2015-08-05

• Reproducibility is hard, 2015-09-09

I have also written a few advice-type posts on various academic matters:

• Seminars, bad and good, 2011-09-29

• Tips on grant writing, 2011-10-21

• What should I do badly?, 2012-05-23

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

Here are a few more programming things:

• Beware of grep with a list, 2013-04-03

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

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

• Read the source code, 2013-08-06

• Emacs key bindings in MS Word, 2014-02-12