Articles – Ted Laderas, PhD

Articles (usually instructional) are listed here.

Highlights

Data Science Organizer Burnout - My minisite for my PositConf talk about Data Science Organizer burnout and how to build a sustainable community.
Getting LearnR to run on Binder - Write up of how to setup a LearnR respository (basically a Shiny App) to run on Binder, a free to use network. Empowers teachers to host their LearnR tutorials.
Package Building: How Document works with Roxygen and Namespaces - I wrote this up because I was confused about using the @export and @import directives in roxygen.
Tidy Tuesday: Animal Crossing - One of my favorite Tidy Tuesday writeups. Shows how to work with {gt} and plot animal villagers as images on a plot.

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.

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…

Data Science Organizer Burnout Part 1

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

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.

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…

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…

Tidy Tuesday R packages

I’m actually really surprised that the top ranking package by centrality is {duckdb}. It’s really become very ubiquitous.

Goodbye to Harder House

i was driving by the Portland State University campus and discovered to my shock that Harder House was no more.

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…

Programming Languages

tidytuesday

Variable type: character

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.

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…

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.

‘Yes, and…’ is the foundation of collaboration

How the rules of comedy improv can improve your collaborations.

Tidy Tuesday: Seafood Production and Consumption

tidytuesday

Understanding global cephalopod production.

How to Network in a Non-slimy Way

Use your curiosity to connect with others in a meaningful way.

Life After Academia

After 3 months leaving academia, how am I doing?

Moving On and Upwards

I’m leaving OHSU. The reasons why.

Updated Blog

Reasons why I moved over to {distill} for my blog.

Underrated Tidyverse Functions

Learn about our assignment to teach the tidyverse to each other.

Setting Boundaries and Saying No

self-care

How saying no can be the best self-care.

Getting LearnR tutorials to run on mybinder.org

Getting Shiny, LearnR, and Mybinder.org to play together nicely.

Tidy Tuesday: Crop Production

tidytuesday

Understanding crop production across the world.

Sentiment analysis of Avatar

tidytuesday

Understanding Characters through Avatar Episode Scripts.

Coffee Data Exploration

tidytuesday

Understanding coffee production and consumption across the world.

Animal Crossing

tidytuesday

Looking at the unique animal personalities in Animal Crossing.

Notes on the RStudio Instructor Training Experience

Notes on the RStudio Instructor Training and certification exams.

Kindness at the Cost of Yourself

self-care

Being overdrawn at the bank of kindness and self-care.

Burning Out and Recovering (slowly)

How I’m recovering from burnout.

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..

Rstudio Conf 2019: Education and Organizations

conference

Some notes about RStudioConf 2019.

Reframing Impostor Syndrome as the Road to Mastery

Some thoughts about impostor syndrome.

Things we learned teaching clinical data wrangling

visualization

R

More information about managing depression and anxiety.

Ted Laderas, Eilis Boudreau, Ted Laderas, and Nicole Weiskopf

Shiny and Tidyeval Part 1

shiny

How do you incorporate tidyeval and shiny together?

Turning down the noise

More information about managing depression and anxiety.

Asking for help to get better

Learning more about managing burnout.

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

conference

More information about the 2018 Cascadia-R conference.

Self Care and Self Compassion in Academia

Why self-care is important in academia.

group_by/summarize: Not just for numeric values!

tidyverse

Learn some more about the many uses of group_by()/summarize().

A Introvert’s Survival Guide to Conferences

social

networking

Are you an introvert? Here’s how to make conferences easier.

Health Informatics Course Materials

oer

open-education

informatics

Links to my lectures for our HSMP410 course.

A Simple Intro to Genome Wide Association

teaching

Notes on our preprint about synthetic clinical data.

What We learned teaching Python to Neuroscience Students

Our team-taught class introducing Neuroscience Graduate Program students to Python.

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

tidytuesday

Learning about giant pumpkin contest winners.

Some Notes from the Evidence to Scholarship Conference

Notes on the Evidence to Scholarship Conference at Reed College.

Data Science and Systems Science

data-science

systems

A talk about how system science and data science are connected.

A gRadual Introduction to Shiny

visualization

R

An workshop introduction to Shiny

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.

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.

Understanding Tidy Evaluation in R

A metaphor for understanding Tidy Evaluation

Using Synthetic Data for Teaching Data Science

Notes on our preprint about synthetic clinical data.

Notes on Open Data Science Conference West 2017

Some notes on ODSC West 2017.

Interesting useR 2017 Talks

useR 2017 talks and links.

How to Not Be Afraid of Your Data

A Past Workshop about EDA and data exploration.

Some Lessons We Learned Running Cascadia-R 2017

How we started and ran the first PNW Regional R Conference, Cascadia-R

On Breadth and Depth in Your Academic Career

Why Learning and hobbies outside of your field are important.

Fostering a Peer Mentoring Culture

A bit about BioData Club

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:

Statcheck Interview

Interesting interview with the developer of statcheck

Somatic Mutations in Skin Paper

More about somatic mutations in skin cancer.

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…