https://chendaniely.github.io/blog.html quarto-1.10.14 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2026/2026-03-30-yvr-cherry-blossoms-marathon/ Vancouver Open Data Portal, some vibes, and lots of checking We have the Vancouver Cherry Blossom (Ultra?) Marathon! ]]> general R https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2026/2026-03-30-yvr-cherry-blossoms-marathon/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-10-27-using-obs-for-online-teaching/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-10-27-using-obs-for-online-teaching/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-05-24-upgrading-marlin-2-0-with-mesh-bed-levling-cr-10s/ making https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-05-24-upgrading-marlin-2-0-with-mesh-bed-levling-cr-10s/ Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-02-29-python-environments-with-conda/ Anaconda (and these days miniconda) has been my go-to for getting Python and the scientific/data science software stack installed on my computer (even on my Arch linux machine!). ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-02-29-python-environments-with-conda/ Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-01-30-r-hex-bowtie/ rstudio::conf you may have seen me walking around with my conference badge and wondered what everything is. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-01-30-r-hex-bowtie/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-01-29-my-time-as-an-rstudio-intern/ this. What I can say is this: whatever you thought it was like working at RStudio, is (probably) true. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2020/2020-01-29-my-time-as-an-rstudio-intern/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-09-13-table-of-model-results-using-kable-and-kableextra/ R/Medicine conference (no it’s not a Reddit thing) and got to help Alison Hill with her R Markdown for Medicine workshop. One of the questions I got to tinker with was making tables used to report model results. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-09-13-table-of-model-results-using-kable-and-kableextra/ Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-28-r-or-python-which-one-to-learn-first/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-28-r-or-python-which-one-to-learn-first/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-20-git-squash-and-merge-workflow/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-20-git-squash-and-merge-workflow/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-06-inconsistencies-with-in-r/ gradethis (grader need to be renamed) is that we end up doing things that aren’t common in R (i.e., grading and comparing code). ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-06-inconsistencies-with-in-r/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-03-mounting-oclus-rift-censors-on-the-wall/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-08-03-mounting-oclus-rift-censors-on-the-wall/ Sat, 03 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Daniel Chen https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-07-23-new-website/ blogdown with the Hugo Academic theme. Thanks so much to Allison Hill, who ran the summer-of-blogdown tutorial for us RStudio interns. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-07-23-new-website/ Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-06-18-rstudio_internship_wk02/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-06-18-rstudio_internship_wk02/ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-06-10-rstudio_internship_wk01/ RStudio interns this year. It’s an unbelievable opportunity and I’ve been half panicked and fighting imposter syndrome since the announcement was made in March. My meeting with Greg Wilson on Friday (2019-06-07) went something like this: ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2019/2019-06-10-rstudio_internship_wk01/ Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2018/2018-04-22-rstatsnyc/ @dataandme and linked to people’s twitter and slides (if I found them). This is probably going to be an ongoing process… ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2018/2018-04-22-rstatsnyc/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2018/2018-01-23-analysis_based_project_templates/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2018/2018-01-23-analysis_based_project_templates/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-07-07-vm_lxc_docker/ SDAL, the lab has undergone a few infrastructure related changes, mainly how applications are run on the servers. From what I remember, we started using Virtual Box virtual machines, then moved to LXC Linux containers, and we are now rebuilding our entire infrastructure using Docker containers. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-07-07-vm_lxc_docker/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-05-30-project_templates/ Noble 2009 Paper, “A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects”. I’ve created a simple shell script that automatically generates this folder structure here, and there’s an rr-init project by the Reproducible Science Curriculum folks. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-05-30-project_templates/ Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-05-01-pfp_blog_changes_in_higher_education/ https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-05-01-pfp_blog_changes_in_higher_education/ Mon, 01 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-04-24-pfp_journal_13_rstatsnyc_nypvi/ NYC R Conference this past weekend. I have been honored to be one of the few speakers for the 3rd year in a row. This year’s talk, “So You Want to be a Data Scientist” gave a whirlwind tour of the tools and skills needed to be a Data Scientist. I conveyed all this information in 56 slides and did it in 20 minutes. ]]> https://chendaniely.github.io/posts/2017/2017-04-24-pfp_journal_13_rstatsnyc_nypvi/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT