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The Setup (Part 1)
One of the more challenging things about beginning graduate school was learning what tools and software I needed in order to work efficiently. Unlike college where software requirements were laid out...
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Love for ProjectTemplate
The advantage about writing a blog post about the tools you wish that you’d used throughout grad school is that, well, it makes you check them out. I went through the ProjectTemplate tutorial, and I’m...
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How to be a successful PhD student
My derby wife Logistic Aggression Hanna Wallach, a Computer Science professor at UMass Amherst, published this guide on how to be a successful graduate student. It’s written for computer science...
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GradHacker
Via twitter I’ve found a new blog, GradHacker, that I’m already in love with. The archives are full of great articles that are refreshingly honest about the challenges many face in grad school, which...
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Editing papers using text-to-speech software
I spent a large chunk of today editing a paper that I’m submitting for publication this week, which has inspired me to share one of my favorite tricks for editing in general. Inspired by this...
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More derby wife gushing
My derby wife Logistic Aggression (aka Hanna Wallach) posted a fantastic essay (via her blog) about things she’s learned from roller derby. Some points are pretty derby specific, and some are more...
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About that p-value article…
Last night on twitter there was a bit of a firestorm over this New York Times snippet about p-values (here is my favorite twitter-snark response). While the article has a surprising number of...
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Personal R Packages
I came across this R package on GitHub, and it made me so excited that I decided to write a post about it. It’s a compilation by Karl Broman of various R functions that he’s found helpful to write...
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Writing an R package from scratch
As I have worked on various projects at Etsy, I have accumulated a suite of functions that help me quickly produce tables and charts that I find useful. Because of the nature of iterative development,...
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