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Agile Ethics: PGT

Picture a biotech startup that specializes in next-generation sequencing (NGS). Their software processes large DNA data files in parallel. At the beginning, such sequencing…
Jun 25, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Settlement Survival

One of my silly side-projects is to organize the dependency chart in the Settlement Survival video game into a mermaid diagram (or a similar flow chart).
Jun 15, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Case Closed Episode List

I have been binge watching the Detective Conan anime series (called Case Closed in USA). Fans like me use episode lists that are online, but with the popularity of the TV…
May 21, 2026
Derek Sollberger
 

Case Closed Episode List 

sessionInfo()
R version 4.6.0 (2026-04-24 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products…
May 21, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Agentic OCR Intro

St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, Cleveland Ohio cookbook. An absolute gem of a cookbook. Has a mix of wonderful old world cooking.
Apr 1, 2026
Derek Sollberger

NIST FALCON: AI Chat

Seminar Goal: update educator community about current trends in artificial intelligence
Mar 27, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Flint Water Crisis

The TidyTuesday data set for November 4, 2025, was about the Flint water crisis. I want to summarize some of the findings for my data science course.
Jan 24, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Grant Witness

Today, I wanted to explore the data sets assembled by Grant Witness (Noam Ross, et al). This data is about terminations of research grants in the USA in the year 2025.
Jan 12, 2026
Derek Sollberger

Google Trends

I haven’t looked at Google Trends in a while. First, let’s see if the API still works (for R programmers), and then try to replicate Angsar Wolsing’s infographic about what…
Dec 29, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Frasier Data

Frasier was a TV show back in the 1990s. Sometimes my friends and I rewatch the show out of nostalgia. In the past few years, Sulabh Bista parsed the episode scripts that…
Dec 28, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

Four Color Theorem

Here, I hope to learn about the reasonably understand the proof(s) of the Four-Color Theorem. I myself have a master’s degree in applied mathematics, but it has been many…
Dec 1, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

Making vdist

Here, I hope to document the process(es) to make the vdist R package. This package will make ggplot2 wrappers to ease instruction of elementary probability distributions.
Dec 1, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Ice Cream in Princeton

Closeread is a custom format for Quarto that enables “scrollytelling” features for HTML documents. This plug-in helps a presenter tell a narrative, quickly annotate visuals…
Oct 27, 2025
Derek Sollberger

DRIPBL: Quarto Dashboards

In this workshop, we will explore the relatively new technology called Quarto dashboards. In this exploration, I have chosen a different data set per my interest, but much…
Oct 18, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Typst Syllabus

Ever since Carlos Scheidegger’s talk at posit::conf(2023), I have wanted to try to use Typst to create a course syllabus. Over the past day, I have been aided by YouTube…
Aug 29, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Interactive Quarto Dashboards

In this workshop, we will explore the relatively new technology called Quarto dashboards. In this exploration, I have chosen a different data set per my interest, but much…
Aug 24, 2025
Derek Sollberger

RNA-Seq Exploratory Data Analysis

To conclude an online course in RNA-seq analysis, here I hope to review our materials into a concise presentation adorned with closeread. I shall work with the airway data…
Aug 17, 2025
Derek Sollberger

About Me

organize topics from abstracts from
Jul 24, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Andre Ethier versus Brad Lidge

I am finally reading Analyzing Baseball Data with R, and thankfully there is a book club over at the DSLC Slack channel (Data Science Learning Community). I want to apply…
Jul 16, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

Processor Checks

For my machine learning class (with AI topics), I should survey the students to get a sense of how powerful their computers are. In particular, I want to ask them
Jun 22, 2025
Derek Sollberger

KL Divergence for Likert Data

Here I argue that we should use KL Divergence as a metric to measure survey data that was collected as Likert scales. In this blog post, I will discuss Likert scales…
Apr 22, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

AI Tools: Explain Paper

Today I tried out the Explain Paper AI tool to aid in research. It may have features that helps summarize papers at various levels of complexity for parts of the papers at a…
Mar 4, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Interactive Quarto Dashboards

In this workshop, we will explore the relatively new technology called Quarto dashboards. In this exploration, I have chosen a different data set per my interest, but much…
Feb 26, 2025
Derek Sollberger

Interactive Dashboards

In this blog post, I want to outline my upcoming Princeton Wintersession workshop Interactive Dashboards for Collaborative Communication. In this workshop, we will explore…
Jan 16, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

Historical Investments

Sometimes I wonder what I would do if I had to redo my whole life.
Jan 11, 2025
Derek Sollberger
 

Filtering in Shiny apps

For my data science lectures, I want to be able to run small Shiny apps (e.g. to demonstrate dplyr concepts). With my current knowledge of Shiny code, I am rather sure that…
Aug 31, 2024
Derek Sollberger
 

Shiny Apps in a Quarto Blog Post

I have long wanted to include simple Shiny apps in my lecture notes so that I can show data science concepts to my students quickly. Today, I want to see if shinylive helps…
Aug 23, 2024
Derek Sollberger
 

webR in a Quarto Blog Post

webR is a Quarto extension made by The Coatless Professor that allows users to type code right there in a webpage.
Aug 21, 2024
Derek Sollberger
 

Sentiment Analysis of The Office

This summer, I am mentoring some high school students through their data science projects. For a data set, I am suggesting the repository of scripts from the TV show The…
Jul 3, 2024
Derek Sollberger

ggflowchart

Today I explore the ggflowchart package (made by Dr Nicola Rennie). For some data, the scenario comes from The Planet Crafter video game. Later in the game (minor spoiler)…
May 18, 2024
Derek Sollberger
 

baseballr package

I want to get back into exploring sports statistics. This semester, some of my students pointed out that there is a baseballr package to ease data acquisition.
May 16, 2024
Derek Sollberger

Bayesian Neural Networks

Over the next few weeks, I want to learn more about Bayesian Neural Networks. Here in this blog post, I will gather resources and examples.
Mar 17, 2024
Derek Sollberger

Settlement Survival

One of my silly side-projects is to organize the dependency chart in the Settlement Survival video game into a mermaid diagram (or a similar flow chart).
Feb 25, 2024
Derek Sollberger

Highcharter

Recently, a colleague told us about the highcharter data visualization package. It seems to have wrappers for Javascript functionality, so we could aim for pop-up…
Feb 21, 2024
Derek Sollberger

Ghibli Palettes

Today, inspired by this article, I want to try out the ghibli package of color palettes inspired by some of the famous Studio Ghibli animated movies.
Jan 27, 2024
Derek Sollberger

AI Tools: Rubrics

Today we will talk about grading rubrics in a couple of ways
Nov 14, 2023
Derek Sollberger

30 Day Map Challenge

Even though I have done the 30 Day Map Challenge each of the past two years, since data visualization is just a hobby for me, I feel like I start from scratch each time.…
Nov 12, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

Some Quick Baseball Stats 

library("gt")
library("Lahman")
library("tidyverse")
df <- Teams |>
  filter(yearID >= 2004) #focusing on the past 18 season
readr::write_csv(df, "baseball_2004_2022.c…
Sep 17, 2023
Derek Sollberger

AI Tools Fall Working Group

This group of biology instructors will explore the new artificial intelligence technologies and ponder the ramifications on pedagogical environments. We will foster ideas…
Sep 5, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Linear Regression Demonstration

Predict how much moxillation takes place at 70 traxolline.
Aug 23, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

Resources about Artificial Intelligence Tools

(I wanted web space where I can organize various links I have encountered about artificial intelligence tools.
Jul 31, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

Using nbgitpuller

Each admin user (“instructor”) can verify the presence of nbgitpuller on their hub presence
Jul 13, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Hands-On Exploration of UDL Modalities

If you are planning on attending this workshop and participate live, I advise you to read only the pre-reading in advance.
Jul 12, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Fonts

Even though I am not planning on making lecture slides in the upcoming semester, I have been meaning to learn how to find and use fonts in my visuals.
Jul 1, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

Quarto Resources

making myself a space to save/archive resources for learning/using Quarto
Jun 3, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Inequalities

There are probably several ways to graph mathematical inequalities in R. Here, I will simply try a brute force method of literally plotting many dots.
Jun 1, 2023
Derek Sollberger

TidyModels Trees

Years ago, I would use the caret package to perform a random forest search and plot an example of a decision tree. Can we do that now in the TidyModels module?
May 15, 2023
Derek Sollberger

graphviz

For years, I have been searching for the ability to make color-coded flowcharts, and I have found “graphviz online!”. We can use apps such as this one.
May 8, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Sex in a Biological Context

Goal
Apr 28, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Math Biology Video Project

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Apr 3, 2023
Derek Sollberger, Emily Weigel

hospital_data

https://data.dartmouthatlas.org/
Mar 9, 2023
Derek Sollberger

JupyterHub Showcase

The following is a quick presentation for my share of the JupyterHub pilot showcase at UC Merced. We met with the 2i2c hosting service along with campus partners to explore…
Mar 6, 2023
Derek Sollberger

California Weather

I want to create and visualize a simple data set for my Data Science courses (that I teach in California).
Jan 25, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

curly operator

The “curly operator” was added in rlang a few years ago, and I have yet to really use it much. It came in handy during a data analyst consulting gig I had during the summer…
Jan 15, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Stardew Valley Crops

Here is some quick code to help me plan a crop layout in Stardew Valley.
Jan 13, 2023
Derek Sollberger
 

Canvas_Roster

With the goal of learning my students’ names faster, I wrote an R script that will convert a roster (“People” in a Canvas course) to a gt table for later offline use.
Jan 11, 2023
Derek Sollberger

Seasons Greetings by Riinu Pius

a place to collect nerdy holiday plots
Dec 22, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Anyway Heres Wonderwall

A few days ago, data scientist Tanya Shapiro posted a neat image of guitar chords—that is, the diagrams were made using ggplot (I presume). Today, I am going to try to…
Sep 29, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Patchwork

In today’s entry, I am simply trying to remember how patchwork handles titles of each graph and an overall graph.
Sep 27, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Coefficient of Variation

For a future lecture in my Sports Analytics course, I want an example of a baseball statistic where the averages for two players are similar, but their variances in that…
Sep 2, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Intentional Walks

baseball
Today’s exploration and visualization practive was inspired by this tweet:
Aug 26, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Oblicubes

fonts
I always like to have something silly for the course image in the Canvas LMS for each of the classes that I teach. Today, I want to see if the oblicubes package by trevorld…
Aug 15, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Typewriter

visualization
Well, I was nerd sniped. Ryan Timpe tweeted an image that made it (at first glance) appear that the gtExtras package allowed users to display a gt table as if it was made by…
Aug 14, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Bump

sports
Today I want to try to make a bump plot while practicing with sports data. The Lahman data set has a lot of historical data about Major League Baseball. Data scientists have…
Aug 12, 2022
Derek Sollberger

overviewR

exploratory data analysis
Today I wanted to try out the overviewR package.
Aug 12, 2022
Derek Sollberger

Welcome To My Blog

quarto
This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!
Aug 12, 2022
Derek Sollberger
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