Essay
Hello World
Why this blog exists and what I will write about.
These days I spend much of my time reading excellent blog posts about making data science and R faster (typically using Rust). I have learnt a great deal from those posts, not just about computer science, but also about the value of writing. Both for your readers and for yourself. Writing can sometimes be laborious, but it forces you to convert your understanding of a thing into something that should (hopefully) be intelligible to your target audience.
Given the above, I’ve decided to attempt to get more practice at both understanding and explaining the tools and methods I use regularly. I’ll mainly write for applied statisticians and data scientists working in R-heavy workflows. Expect notes on biostatistics, clinical-trial thinking, and computational methods for microbiome and related omics data.
If the above sounds interesting to you, you’re welcome to follow along or to reach out to me.