Resources and principles for teaching

Some basic principles related to teaching (programming) that might be helpful that I picked up at rstudio::conf…

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Do the simple thing first

Before jumping to complex and sophisticated approaches, try something simple. The results might surprise you…

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Thoughts on Domino

Domino have built an impressive looking data science platform with some really cool features built-in as standard: collaboration, scalability, version control, and publishing. After some time playing around, I’ve been really impressed by what Domino can offer…

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Getting data from the GitHub API

In a video I saw from Plotcon 2016, Kent Russell mentioned his GitHub stars, revealing that he has personally starred over 10,000 repositories. He joked that most of them are probably long-abandoned and mused that it might be interesting for someone to take a look at that. I thought it might be. So I have…

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