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The 2020 Fall semester is almost over! Hurray! While part of me (maybe 95%) is tempted to put this semester in the past and never think about it again, I know that with all the challenges and difficulties I was … Continue reading →

The SDS Capstone is a one semester course focused on using data in ethical ways to collaboratively solve real-world problems. While the capstone has been offered numerous times, I just finished leading that course for the first time.  What a … Continue reading →

[This is part of a series.  Here is Part 0,  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4] Hi there!  I took a break from writing this series of blog posts, because as it turns out, writing about my experiences as a trans … Continue reading →

[This is part of a series.  Here is Part 0,  Part 1, Part 2,  Part 3, and Part 5] During the summer between my first and second year of my Biostats Masters I attended the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference where I sat in on … Continue reading →

[This is part of a series.  Here is Part 0,  Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, and Part 5] OK, let’s pickup where I left off with my last blog post.  I packed up my hatchback with all of my stuff and drove … Continue reading →

[This is part of a series.  Here is Part 0,  Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5] If someone were to tell you that your life in San Francisco was going to be drastically different than your life in Minnesota, that … Continue reading →

Much of my research is on Social Networks, which are representations of how people, groups of people, or sometimes chimpanzees interact or are otherwise connected with each other. When analyzing social network data, as when analyzing any data, it is … Continue reading →

After digging around the internet looking for data on gun violence for a few minutes,  I found Gun Violence Archive which has a ton of great information on gun violence in the US. You can search for incidents by date, location, … Continue reading →

My research focuses on social networks.  Social networks, at least as I deal with them, are representations of how people (or organizations, or animals) perceive or interact with each other.  These representations can take the form of  visualizations (see below for … Continue reading →

I feel like I am on a roll here.  Last month, my Bayesian paper (joint work with Krista Gile, Joseph Hogan, Nancy Barnett, and Crystal Linkletter) was published in Statistics in Medicine, and just today my RDS paper (which I worked … Continue reading →

I’m happy to report that my article Bayesian Peer Calibration with Application to Alcohol Use has been published in Statistics in Medicine.  If you love Bayesian statistics, social networks, multi-level models, and boatloads of conjugate prior distributions (check out the … Continue reading →

I recently(ish) received an email inviting me to speak at the 2015 Web Summit.  How did this come to be?  Well let me give you the back story.

Ever since I found this tutorial yesterday, I have been so excited to be making animated gifs in R.  In fact, last night as I was laying my head upon my pillow, I almost couldn’t fall asleep because I kept thinking … Continue reading →

I have been playing around with mapping data in R using the maps package.

Here we are in the middle of the summer.  The humidity is reaching peak levels.  Offices are vacant as people venture out for their much awaited vacations.  And as hard it is for me to believe, JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) 2014 is … Continue reading →

There is something about statistics that inspires people to break into song and (sometimes) choreographed dance.  Here are a few videos of people who made the sound decision to video themselves doing just that:

Tomorrow I head off to Orlando for ENAR where I will be presenting a poster on Sunday night. If you are at ENAR and are inclined, drop by my poster to say hi.