More derby wife gushing
My derby wife Logistic Aggression (aka Hanna Wallach) posted a fantastic essay (via her blog) about things she’s learned from roller derby. Some points are pretty derby specific, and some are more...
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Creating a random calendar with R
Sometimes this is my life. But it’s so satisfying when you write a program that saves you time! Here is an example. The Problem: For several years at Hopkins I have been involved in teaching a large...
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Hilary: the most poisoned baby name in US history
I’ve always had a special fondness for my name, which — according to Ryan Gosling in “Lars and the Real Girl” — is a scientific fact for most people (Ryan Gosling constitutes scientific proof in my...
View ArticleThe Cut!
Just a quick post to say that my blog piece about the name “Hilary” got picked up by The Cut — a part of New York Magazine! Go check it out!More
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About that p-value article…
Last night on twitter there was a bit of a firestorm over this New York Times snippet about p-values (here is my favorite twitter-snark response). While the article has a surprising number of...
View ArticleTeach statistics before calculus!
Stemming from the p-value discussion yesterday and today, I thought it’d be a good time to share my favorite TED talk, given by Art Benjamin. “The world has changed from analog to digital, and it’s...
View ArticlePersonal R Packages
I came across this R package on GitHub, and it made me so excited that I decided to write a post about it. It’s a compilation by Karl Broman of various R functions that he’s found helpful to write...
View ArticleI’m Dr. Hilary Parker!
AND NOW I HAVE THE BEST DOPPELGANGER OF ALL TIME!!! The name “Hilary” continues to do me proud.More
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Writing an R package from scratch
As I have worked on various projects at Etsy, I have accumulated a suite of functions that help me quickly produce tables and charts that I find useful. Because of the nature of iterative development,...
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Sunsets in Google Calendar using R
I live (and work!) near one of the most beautiful vantage points for sunsets in possibly the entire US. However almost every beautiful sunset I have seen from there has come from either 1) me walking...
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