Blog – Ted Laderas, PhD

Highlights

An Introvert’s Guide to Conferences - One of my most popular blog posts, about how to conference while introverted.
“Yes, and…” is the Foundation for Collaboration - What can improvisational comedy teach us about collaboration?
Moving on and Upwards - yes, I am a recovering academic that works in industry. This article is about why academia was not compatible with my goals.
Goodbye to Harder House - A short musing about Harder House, the former home for the Portland State University’s System Science Program

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…

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.

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.

Setting Boundaries and Saying No

self-care

How saying no can be the best self-care.

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.

Rstudio Conf 2019: Education and Organizations

conference

Some notes about RStudioConf 2019.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…