I recently submitted a Proposal to the R Consortium. I decided to share this proposal on my blog for two reasons: To raise awareness of…

Yesterday I wrote that I’ve received a number of choroplethr bug reports recently that I simply cannot reproduce. Due to a large number of people…

Since November 2017 I have received three bug reports from users who see this error when running any command in the choroplethr package: Theme element panel.border missing   Error in if (theme$panel.ontop)…

In November I announced a new collaboration with the Census Bureau around data science training. Today I’d like to provide an update on this project….

A few weeks ago I announced my latest project: Data Science instruction at the Census Bureau. In addition to announcing the project, I also snuck…

Today I am delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration. I will be working with the US Census Bureau as a Data Science Instructor! Over…

Ezra Haber Glenn, the author of the acs package in R, recently posted about the Free Software Foundation’s “Social Benefit” Award on the acs mailing…

The recent Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Conference gave me the opportunity to meet some people who have made tremendous contributions to the world…

Recently I’ve been working with a client to help their analysts improve their proficiency with R. A major challenge in engagements like this is figuring…

I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2017 Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Conference. My favorite part of the conference was talking to people…