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Research Scientist Interview Guide

Data science

Interview Guide

Research Scientist Interview Guide

Personal Highlights: Positconf 2024

Data science

My picked talks for 2024 after Posit released the talks on YouTube

Use Quarto, Make Friends: a two-year journey

Quarto

Website

I wrote a blog back in early 2023 when I first switched from blogdown to Quarto on my initial impression (read here), and this is a two-year follow-up on my journey since I…

Bad Pharma: How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it - Ben Goldacre

Notes

Reading notes on some of the chapters. Book on Amazon: link

Notes: The Book of OHDSI - Data Analytics

Data science

Observational data

Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics

Parameterized Reports with Quarto: R-Ladies Abuja Workshop

R

Quarto

parameterized reports

workshop

2-hour code-along workshop on parameterized reports with Quarto

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software - Nadia Eghbal

Notes

Reading notes on some of the chapters. Book on Amazon: link

Parameterized Reports with Quarto: R-Ladies DC Workshop

R

Quarto

parameterized reports

workshop

2-hour code-along workshop on parameterized reports with Quarto

Styling your quarto project

Website

Learning notes on how to customize a quarto project, such as website.

Use WebR in your existing quarto website

Quarto

Website

You might get stuck when you try to add the trending webR to quarto extension in your website. This is one way to fix it.

Parameterized Quarto reports improve understanding of soil health

R

Quarto

parameterized reports

agriculture

soil health

Creating custom soil health reports with Quarto

Personal Highlights: Positconf 2023

Data science

Curation of content to check out when I’ve got time

Personal Highlights: CEN2023

Biostatistics

Selected summaries on the 5th Conference of the Central European Network of the International Biometric Society (IBS).

Shiny optimization of climate benefits from a statewide agricultural grant program

R

shiny

agriculture

climate

Development process of {WaCSE} shiny app

Transforming medical statistics classroom with R and Quarto

Quarto

Education

Some reflection on the experimental 8-day introductory statisics course with new teaching methods. Visit the course website here.

Washington Soil Health Initative and Climate Smart Estimator

agriculture

soil health

climate

Overview of the WA Soil Health Initative & WA Climate Smart Estimator {WaCSE} shiny app

R package workflow

Rpkg

RSE

A step-to-step guide to make CRAN-worthy R packages

Web Scraping & Mapping {orcas} Encounters

R

web scraping

leaflet

Web scraping with {rvest} & mapping with {leaflet}

Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One - Devi Sridhar

Notes

Reading notes on the book. Also serves as a collection of notes from Professor Devi Sridhar’s articles.

Course review: making DS work for clinical reporting

Reporting

Data science

RSE

A review of the Coursera course provivded by Genentech and Roche, on “Making data science work for clinical reporting”.

Notes: Making Data Science work for Clinical Reporting - Part 4

Clinical trial

Data science

Reporting

This is the Part 4 of a four-part course on Coursera.

Notes: Making Data Science work for Clinical Reporting - Part 3

Clinical trial

Data science

Reporting

This is the Part 3 of a four-part course on Coursera. In this part, innerSource and OpenSource concepts are introduced, and R package development is discussed.

Testing Shiny app and deploy to shinyapps.io

Shiny

Website

Notes on how to set up the free shinyapp.io to deploy a demo shiny app.

Notes: Making Data Science work for Clinical Reporting - Part 2

Clinical trial

Data science

Reporting

This is the Part 2 of a four-part course on Coursera. In this part, agile and DevOps practices are introduced, along with version control with Git and reproducible R projects.

R package website with `pkgdown`

Rpkg

Website

A workflow that worked for me: when you have a few vignette documents, and want to display them nicely in a website format.

Notes: Making Data Science work for Clinical Reporting - Part 1

Clinical trial

Data science

Reporting

This is the Part 1 of a four-part course on Coursera. In this part, there is an introduction to clinical trial phases, and motivation to share data. In addition, some terms (such as CDISC standard) have been introduced.

Open source reporting with R: clinical, public health, RSE and embrace the change

Reporting

Data science

Education

RSE

My thoughts on the open source transition in pharma, public (health) sector and academia. A culture change is needed, and it’s done better at some places than others. As educators and researchers, there are many things that can be done.

Publishing Quarto Website with GitHub Pages

Quarto

Website

A workflow that worked for me. This is the third time that I go through the Quarto website publishing with GitHub Pages - even more reason to note it down!

qtwAcademic: a quick and easy way to start your Quarto website

Quarto

Website

qtwAcademic stands for Quarto Websites for Academics, which provides a few Quarto templates for Quarto website that are commonly used by academics.

How to prevent the next pandemic - Bill Gates

Notes

Reading notes on some of the chapters.

Website reboot: switching from Blogdown to Quarto

Quarto

Website

Time to reboot the personal website. Now, with Quarto

Washington Climate Smart Estimator: Using ArcGIS Dashboards and Experience Builder

ArcGIS

agriculture

climate

Overview of WA Climate Smart Estimator ArcGIS Experience web app

Aquatic Risk Assessment: Organophosphate insecticide mixtures in Washington surface waters

agriculture

water quality

Aquartic risk assessment of insecticide mixtures in WA streams

Aquatic Risk Assessment: Organophosphate insecticide mixtures in Washington surface waters

agriculture

water quality

Aquartic risk assessment of insecticide mixtures in WA streams

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