Why command line programming is essential to the Data Science Toolkit TL;DR: You are going to use it whether you like it or not as part of your data science workflow, but it can be very useful and portable... Read More

I recently listened to a short NPR segment that spoke of why, Humans are bad a making predictions, however Statisticians can do better. One reason for the poor predictions were that people tended to only focus on the... Read More

Open government data portals are essential to transparency and civic education for citizens, and supports the work for data researchers and academics especially in smaller cities such as Hartford, CT. These portals provide data from a number of different government... Read More

R Markdown This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For more details on using R Markdown see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com. When you click the Knit button a... Read More

UPDATE on 7/16/16: I’m heading back to DePaul University to finish what I started! Johns Hopkins is/was extremely chalenging all while working full-time and taking two courses that I found out were very time-consuming and mostly theoretical and not... Read More

After attending the useR! 2016 R Conference, I felt supercharged and armed with new insights and ideas about how to further contribute to the R community. I met wonderful people in real life (IRL) from twitter and heard interesting... Read More

TL;DR: For the forgetful, IFTTT can be a great way to track your work hours and provide insight about trends through visualization. Manually entering your own timesheet and logging your specific project time hours for work (and contracting) can cause... Read More