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Data Science Organizer Burnout Part 2

Finding Allies and Sponsors
I’m going to give a talk at PositConf this year about Data Science meetup burnout and how to make your meetup more sustainable.

Ted Laderas

 

My Time at PositConf 2023

Well, it’s been over a week since I got back from PositConf. While the new features and geegaws from Posit are of interest (including Shinylive for R), as well as the…

Ted Laderas

Data Science Organizer Burnout Part 1

Self Care
I’m going to give a talk at PositConf this year about Data Science meetup burnout and how to make your meetup more sustainable.

Ted Laderas

Everything I know about programming I learned from Rocky’s Boots

I was 6 when we got our Apple IIe computer. One of my favorite games at the time was “Rocky’s Boots”, which was a game about building machines using Boolean Logic.

Ted Laderas

 

The Analyst’s Nightmares

I have a lot of nightmares about data. Especially when I’m at the verge of publishing or sharing an analysis. I’ve come to learn that this is one of the hallmarks of a good…

Ted Laderas

 

Year in Review/Moving On

This has been a very difficult and rewarding year for me. I currently am between jobs, having resigned from my position at DNAnexus. I won’t go into the reasons other than…

Ted Laderas

Tidy Tuesday R packages 

tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load('2023-12-26')
--- Compiling #TidyTuesday Information for 2023-12-26 ----
--- There are 3 files available ---
--- Starting Download ---
…

Ted Laderas

Goodbye to Harder House

i was driving by the Portland State University campus and discovered to my shock that Harder House was no more.
Jul 28, 2023
Ted Laderas

 

A Good Son to a Bad Dad

Note: I have some misgivings about posting this, but I’m hoping it will help others to realize that they’re not defined by their parents. Not everyone is blessed to have…
Jun 20, 2023
Ted Laderas

Programming Languages

tidytuesday
Variable type: character
Mar 21, 2023
Ted Laderas

European Drug Companies

tidytuesday
For Tidy Tuesday this week (3/14), I took a quick look at the drugs brought out by European Drug companies.
Mar 14, 2023
Ted Laderas

 

Retrospective and Themes for 2022

Note: I found it incredibly useful (and empowering) to write a retrospective of everything that I worked on last year. This is a list of things I accomplished in 2022 at…
Jan 4, 2023
Ted Laderas

RStudio Conf 2022 Highlights: Days 1 and 2

Well, RStudio Conference 2022 has come and gone, and I thought I’d just write a couple blog posts of my experience attending it.
Jul 5, 2022
Ted Laderas

 

‘Yes, and…’ is the foundation of collaboration

How the rules of comedy improv can improve your collaborations.
Feb 27, 2022
Ted Laderas

Tidy Tuesday: Seafood Production and Consumption

tidytuesday
Understanding global cephalopod production.
Oct 12, 2021
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

Registered Nurses in the United States and Territories

tidytuesday
Understanding wages for Registered Nurses.
Oct 5, 2021
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

 

How to Network in a Non-slimy Way

Use your curiosity to connect with others in a meaningful way.
Sep 13, 2021
Ted Laderas

 

Life After Academia

After 3 months leaving academia, how am I doing?
Jul 20, 2021
Ted Laderas

 

Moving On and Upwards

I’m leaving OHSU. The reasons why.
Apr 29, 2021
Ted Laderas

 

Updated Blog

Reasons why I moved over to {distill} for my blog.
Mar 18, 2021
Ted Laderas

 

Underrated Tidyverse Functions

Learn about our assignment to teach the tidyverse to each other.
Dec 1, 2020
Ted Laderas

 

Setting Boundaries and Saying No

self-care
How saying no can be the best self-care.
Oct 14, 2020
Ted Laderas

Getting LearnR tutorials to run on mybinder.org

Getting Shiny, LearnR, and Mybinder.org to play together nicely.
Sep 15, 2020
Ted Laderas

Tidy Tuesday: Crop Production

tidytuesday
Understanding crop production across the world.
Sep 3, 2020
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

Sentiment analysis of Avatar

tidytuesday
Understanding Characters through Avatar Episode Scripts.
Aug 11, 2020
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

Coffee Data Exploration

tidytuesday
Understanding coffee production and consumption across the world.
Jul 8, 2020
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

Animal Crossing

tidytuesday
Looking at the unique animal personalities in Animal Crossing.
May 5, 2020
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

 

Notes on the RStudio Instructor Training Experience

Notes on the RStudio Instructor Training and certification exams.
Nov 15, 2019
Ted Laderas

 

Kindness at the Cost of Yourself

self-care
Being overdrawn at the bank of kindness and self-care.
Sep 23, 2019
Ted Laderas

 

Burning Out and Recovering (slowly)

How I’m recovering from burnout.
Jul 3, 2019
Ted Laderas

Package Building: How DESCRIPTION, NAMESPACE, roxygen, and devtools::document work together

R
Some thoughts the package building process and how devtools::document() is at the center of it..
Feb 12, 2019
Ted Laderas

Rstudio Conf 2019: Education and Organizations

conference
Some notes about RStudioConf 2019.
Jan 24, 2019
Ted Laderas

 

Reframing Impostor Syndrome as the Road to Mastery

Some thoughts about impostor syndrome.
Dec 13, 2018
Ted Laderas

Things we learned teaching clinical data wrangling

visualization
R
More information about managing depression and anxiety.
Oct 15, 2018
Ted Laderas, Eilis Boudreau, Ted Laderas, and Nicole Weiskopf

 

Shiny and Tidyeval Part 1

shiny
How do you incorporate tidyeval and shiny together?
Aug 7, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Turning down the noise

More information about managing depression and anxiety.
Aug 2, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Asking for help to get better

Learning more about managing burnout.
Jun 25, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

A Introvert’s Survival Guide to Conferences

social
networking
Are you an introvert? Here’s how to make conferences easier.
May 17, 2018
Ted Laderas

What We learned teaching Python to Neuroscience Students

Our team-taught class introducing Neuroscience Graduate Program students to Python.
Jan 17, 2018
Ted Laderas

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

tidytuesday
Learning about giant pumpkin contest winners.
Invalid Date
Ted Laderas, Ted Laderas

Cascadia-R 2018: How we planned it and the reasons why

conference
More information about the 2018 Cascadia-R conference.
Jun 9, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Self Care and Self Compassion in Academia

Why self-care is important in academia.
Jun 5, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

group_by/summarize: Not just for numeric values!

tidyverse
Learn some more about the many uses of group_by()/summarize().
May 24, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Health Informatics Course Materials

oer
open-education
informatics
Links to my lectures for our HSMP410 course.
Apr 25, 2018
Ted Laderas

A Simple Intro to Genome Wide Association

teaching
Notes on our preprint about synthetic clinical data.
Apr 4, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Some Notes from the Evidence to Scholarship Conference

Notes on the Evidence to Scholarship Conference at Reed College.
Mar 19, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Data Science and Systems Science

data-science
systems
A talk about how system science and data science are connected.
Feb 28, 2018
Ted Laderas

A gRadual Introduction to Shiny

visualization
R
An workshop introduction to Shiny
Jan 24, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

If you want to talk with me for an informational interview

talking
I get a lot of requests for informational interviews. Here’s how to actually get one.
Jan 15, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

So You’ve Accidentally Checked in a Large File Into Git

git
git hell
Don’t panic. I’ll show you how to scrub your Git history and get rid of it.
Jan 5, 2018
Ted Laderas

 

Understanding Tidy Evaluation in R

A metaphor for understanding Tidy Evaluation
Dec 19, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Using Synthetic Data for Teaching Data Science

Notes on our preprint about synthetic clinical data.
Dec 14, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Notes on Open Data Science Conference West 2017

Some notes on ODSC West 2017.
Nov 7, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Interesting useR 2017 Talks

useR 2017 talks and links.
Jul 5, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

How to Not Be Afraid of Your Data

A Past Workshop about EDA and data exploration.
Jun 28, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Some Lessons We Learned Running Cascadia-R 2017

How we started and ran the first PNW Regional R Conference, Cascadia-R
Jun 7, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

On Breadth and Depth in Your Academic Career

Why Learning and hobbies outside of your field are important.
Apr 19, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Fostering a Peer Mentoring Culture

A bit about BioData Club
Apr 17, 2017
Ted Laderas

 

Surrogate Oncogene Paper is Published

My dissertation paper, A Network-Based Model of Oncogenic Collaboration for Prediction of Drug Sensitivity is now published! Here’s a lay summary:
Dec 23, 2015
Ted Laderas

 

Statcheck Interview

Interesting interview with the developer of statcheck
Nov 19, 2015
Ted Laderas

 

Somatic Mutations in Skin Paper

More about somatic mutations in skin cancer.
May 26, 2015
Ted Laderas

 

High Impact Factor Journals Have Higher Retraction Rates

Very interesting New York Times article about the rise of frauds and retractions in High Impact Factor journals. The retraction rates for High IF journals (such as Science…
May 24, 2015
Ted Laderas
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