Talks and presentations

  • Arriving at a Workflow to Suit Your Needs

    October 20, 2017 | Becoming More Productive: Workflow Strategies for Graduate Students, Berkeley, California

    This presentation was part of a workshop hosted by the UC Berkeley Library for students in the life & health sciences. Read more

  • Utility Functions in R

    October 18, 2017 | UC Berkeley - The Hacker Within (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Berkeley, California

    I gave a tutorial on environments in R and customizing startup environments. Read more

  • Yet Another Git(Hub) Tutorial

    June 26, 2017 | UC Berkeley - CDIPS Data Science Workshop Tutorials Week (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Berkeley, California

    I gave a presentation on the basics of Git and GitHub, geared towards first-time users in collaborative settings. Read more

  • Data Visualization in R

    March 14, 2017 | UC Berkeley - The Hacker Within (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Berkeley, California

    I gave a tutorial on the basics of visualization in R, using Jupyter Notebooks to produce an illustrative guide. Read more

  • Data Tidying and Transformation in R & Python

    March 14, 2017 | UC Berkeley - The Hacker Within (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Berkeley, California

    I led an interactive tutorial on the basics of data tidying & transformation in R; my colleague David DeTomaso (Python) and I interspersed our presentations so as to aid both R and Python users in learning the other language by making clear analogies. Read more

  • Introduction to R & RStudio

    November 29, 2016 | UC Berkeley - The Hacker Within (Berkeley Institute for Data Science), Berkeley, California

    I gave a tutorial introducing R & the RStudio IDE to first-time users. Read more

  • Making a To-Do List That Works for You

    October 21, 2016 | Becoming More Productive: Workflow Strategies for Graduate Students, Berkeley, California

    This presentation was part of a workshop hosted by the UC Berkeley Library for students in the life & health sciences. Read more