quartoblog – The Median Data Scientist

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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About Me

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Historical Investments

Sometimes I wonder what I would do if I had to redo my whole life.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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)…

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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…

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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.

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AI Tools: Rubrics

Today we will talk about grading rubrics in a couple of ways

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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.…

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