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GitHub Actions and `workflow_call`

While I enjoy learning about DevOps, my primary role is as a Data Engineer, though I often function more like a software engineer working on data-intensive applications.…

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Building with Quarto

I spent a decent amount of time working on rebuilding my site with Quarto but the decision of should I rebuild my website was pretty impulsive. It’s not the first time I’ve…

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A `tidyverse` R and `polars` Python side-by-side

After seeing many language wars style posts about vs and the sort of to comparisons being made, I realized that there aren’t many helpful side-by-sides that show you how…

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Reflections on the start of my data fellowship with Uptake

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Advent of code in R: day one

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Building this site with RStudio and `rmarkdown`

This post is outdated; it would still work if you want to go this route, but the current site is built using Quarto and I think it’s a HUGE improvement

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The move to R

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Recreating the vaccine heatmap in `plotly 4.0` with R

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P-hacking and ontology

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Bar chart annotations with `pandas` and `matplotlib`

This is a very old post. The pandas API has matured greatly and most of this is very outdated. This remains here as a record for myself

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My `pandas` snippets–always evolving

This is a very old post. The pandas API has matured greatly and most of this is very outdated. This remains here as a record for myself

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First Kaggle Submission–Random Forest Classifier

This is a very old post. Please check the sklearn documentation for examples of how to run a Random Forest Classifier. This remains here as a record for myself

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The Python journey–One Semester with Python

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Foucault’s challenge to modernist classification

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