Data science is not a backup plan: Advice for academics thinking about industry
Disclaimer: This is subjective advice, as is all advice. What worked for me may not work for you. Anyone offering to give you tips that guarantee success if ...
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2025
How I replaced my existing GitHub pages website with a Jekyll site
I’ve had a personal website hosted on GitHub pages for 5-ish years now. I had started out with a simple html template and then tweaked things as I went along...
2024
30 day chart challenge: 2024
30 day chart challenge 2024
2023
30 day chart challenge: 2023
30 day chart challenge 2023 In reverse chronological order.
Visualizing building footprint areas
This Quarto doc walks through the steps of porting data over from R to Python and back again: extracting the data, applying an area-packing algorithm to it, ...
2022
30 day map challenge: 2022
Just like last year, I took part in the 30 day map challenge. Writing this is a bit disorienting. They’re just maps, but the condensed month-long sprint make...
2021
30 day map challenge: 2021
This year, I took part in the 30 day map challenge. I didn’t manage to complete every single day, but I did my best, and I loved thinking about the datasets ...