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
vsfor
, 2013-04-02Thoughts 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
, 2012-03-21Interactive 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 theapply()
functions, 2013-08-20[
with theapply()
functions, revisited 2014-04-29Read the source code, 2013-08-06
Emacs key bindings in MS Word, 2014-02-12