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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…
Mar 29, 2025
Ben Harrap

 

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…
Mar 3, 2025
Ben Harrap

 

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

joke
tan cos sin
Feb 18, 2025
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What did the psychic say before streaking across the pitch?

joke
All will be revealed
Feb 18, 2025
Ben Harrap

 

How can you tell that statisticians love Vietnamese food?

joke
They’re always talking about P(H0)
Feb 17, 2025
Ben Harrap

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…
Jan 10, 2025
Ben Harrap

 

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!
Dec 18, 2024
Ben Harrap

 

Migrating from blogdown/Hugo to Quarto

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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.…
Dec 16, 2024
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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…
Aug 10, 2024
Ben Harrap

 

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

joke
An oinkment
Jul 10, 2024
Ben Harrap

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…
May 10, 2024
Ben Harrap

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…
Apr 29, 2024
Ben Harrap

 

How did the vegetable gardener lower their taxable income?

joke
Celery sacrifice
Oct 20, 2023
Ben Harrap

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…
Oct 9, 2023
Ben Harrap

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!…
Jul 17, 2023
Ben Harrap

 

What do you call music composed by apes?

joke
A chimphony
Nov 29, 2022
Ben Harrap

 

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.
Mar 29, 2022
Ben Harrap

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…
Feb 10, 2022
Ben Harrap

 

Why are cows bad at the tightrope?

joke
Because they lactose
Nov 29, 2021
Ben Harrap

 

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…
Aug 3, 2021
Ben Harrap

 

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…
Jul 30, 2021
Ben Harrap

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.
Jun 28, 2021
Ben Harrap

 

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…
Jun 28, 2021
Ben Harrap

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…
Apr 24, 2021
Ben Harrap

 

Why was Christmas ruined for the Germans?

joke
Because all their cakes were stollen
Dec 3, 2020
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