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tidyverse functions you might not know about

R

programming

data

Sometimes you ask for help and people provide you with solutions using functions you didn’t know exist. That happened to me today and made me realise that I should look…

How did Francis pay for his ticket to heaven?

joke

A big ask: doing literally anything apparently

self

academia

This blog post is about Significance magazine and the transphobic dumpster fire of an article they published in 2023. Over the last couple of years I’ve gone back and forth…

What makes a good variable naming convention

survey design

R

code

research

In particular, what makes a good variable naming convention for a longitudinal or panel survey? I wanted to answer this question so I could propose a good naming convention…

What did Euclid say when Dante asked about his bronzed complexion?

joke

What did the psychic say before streaking across the pitch?

joke

All will be revealed

How can you tell that statisticians love Vietnamese food?

joke

They’re always talking about P(H0)

Switching from Stata to R

code

R

Stata

research

Making the transition from Stata to R can be challenging as the two languages are different in some fundamental ways. My initial training in biostatistics was using Stata…

Including your publications on your Quarto website

quarto

R

academia

In my efforts to continue to replicate my old website, I added a list of my publications. Read on if you’d like to do the same for your own Quarto website!

Migrating from blogdown/Hugo to Quarto

quarto

R

So my old website became too painful to keep updated thanks to version differences across the blogdown and Hugo system I was using, so I’ve migrated it to a Quarto website.…

Reflecting on my PhD experience

academia

self

phd

I submitted my PhD thesis nearly two months ago, and while I still have to wait for examiner feedback to claim that I’ve ‘finished’, I think I’ve sufficiently decompressed…

What did the pig get to help with their dry skin?

joke

The Health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australia in the Context of the Child Protection System

MSPGH PhD Completion Seminar

academia

research

phd

I presented my PhD completion seminar to the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health on the 10th of May, 2024. I’ve included the recording of the seminar here and…

Two new RStudio themes

code

R

design

Sometimes you see a picture and think to yourself “oh I like the colour composition here”. Well when I think that, I also think “this would make a great RStudio theme”. So…

How did the vegetable gardener lower their taxable income?

joke

Celery sacrifice

Going to the ATSIMA 2023 conference

academia

conference

research

The Statistical Society of Australia (SSA) were advertising funding to support a member to attend this year’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mathematics Alliance (ATSI…

A brief introduction to research for health professionals

Research on the Run 2021, Ballarat Health Services

research

consulting

I originally did this talk for Ballarat Health Services (now Grampians Health) back in 2021. I’d intended to upload the recording but unfortunately it didn’t materialise!…

What do you call music composed by apes?

joke

Further reflections on gender identity

self

It’s been quite a few months since I started thinking deeply about my own gender identity and not a week has gone by where I haven’t found myself pondering on it.

RMarkdown is great

research

code

R

The title says it all really. RMarkdown, along with bookdown, has made my life so much easier when it comes to writing up papers and reports. If you’re a non-R user I hope…

Why are cows bad at the tightrope?

joke

Because they lactose

What I Didn’t Learn at University

academia

I presented this talk at the Early Career and Student Statistician’s Conference in 2021. I found that while I learned a lot at university about statistics and data, I didn’t…

Thinking About Gender Identity

self

I thought I would gather my thoughts on my gender identity in this post. Partly for me to keep track of thoughts and feelings I’ve had, and partly in the hopes that it could…

The Health of Aboriginal Children in Western Australia and its Intersection with the Child Protection System

PhD Confirmation Report, May 2021

research

academia

phd

This is the report I prepared for my PhD confirmation on the 31st of May, 2021.

PhD Confirmation Presentation

research

academia

phd

This is the video recording of my PhD confirmation presentation delivered at the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health…

Basil Pesto

food

self

This basil pesto recipe is the result of me making pesto innumerable times and tweaking it each time until I got it just right. My goal was to make a pesto that tastes just…

Why was Christmas ruined for the Germans?

joke

Because all their cakes were stollen

Meet the dogs

self

My happy little family at home consists primarily of noodle horses, or greyhounds as they’re more commonly known. We’ve got two greyhounds - Randy (13) and Cheeky (9). We…