About Me

I am an #rstats and open science enthusiast. I currently work at Highmark Health, managing a team of researchers. Outside of my day job, I serve as a methodologist on several research teams, and develop accessible data tools. This site contains my blog and other open resources for learning data analysis.

Recent Posts

Furniture 1.4.1

22 Feb 2017

The latest stable version of the furniture R package is version 1.4.1. It contains several bug fixes in addition to improvements in table1().

Colors in R

21 Jan 2017

This is a fantastic guide to the colors available in R. I’m not sure who made it but it appears to be very comprehensive. Just click on R Colors for the PDF.

Furniture Version 1.2.0

21 Oct 2016

We are excited to announce that we are updating our furniture package from 1.0.1 to 1.2.0. We included a new operator (%xt%) for simple cross tabulations that includes a chi-square test and some data from NHANES 2005-2010. Although these additions are nice, most of the updates were to table1. These included:

Wash Your Data

25 Sep 2016

A bit part of being a data scientist, analyst, or anything else data related, is cleaning up your data. There are several things that have to be done to get the data ready. To help you in this process, the washer() function in the furniture R package can be used to clean your data in several situations. I’ll show you a few situations where it is particularly helpful.