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A new RStudio theme: Ghost Gum

code

R

design

So I took a picture more than a year ago. I took it because I liked the colour palette of these logs and thought it would make a nice RStudio theme. Well, over a year later…

How did the geologist carry their books to school?

joke

In their rocksack

What the hell is networking?

academia

work

community

At some point in your student life or early in your career, you’ll get advice telling you how important networking is. What they probably don’t go on to explain is what the…

I can only play in your back yard if you invite me in

academia

programming

statistics

I read a post called Statistics in the era of AI by Terry McGlynn. I hadn’t come across Terry before. He self-identifies as an ecologist and I have a lot of respect for…

Joining strings with missing data together in R

R

programming

strings

Joining multiple string columns together in R isn’t a particularly tricky thing to do. Until recently though, I found it unreasonably annoying trying to join strings where…

What did the doctor prescribe Dumbo to help with his pain?

joke

Why don’t statisticians like getting feedback?

joke

Because they’re always

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My gardener friend crossbred cauliflower and watermelon and it was the saddest plant I’ve ever seen

joke

They said it was a meloncauli

Not all missings are created equal

R

programming

I posted this question on Bluesky the other day, because I wasn’t sure whether a row-wise or column-wise solution would perform better for the problem I was trying to solve.

An R function for pronouns

R

programming

quarto

People can have pronouns that change over time or multiple pronouns, like myself. In an ideal world, I’d love it if people used a random pronoun each time, but people aren’t…

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

Making a custom RStudio theme

R

programming

design

This is a re-post of my previous how-to on how to make custom RStudio themes. It unfortunately disappeared by accident as I migrated my site from Hugo/Blogdown to Quarto (it…

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…