Portfolio

Books

Statistical Inference via Data Science

Co-authored with Albert Y. Kim and Arturo Valdivia, this free online book teaches statistics via computation and data science fundamentals using R and the tidyverse.

→ Print edition

Getting Used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown

A hands-on, beginner-friendly guide to using R and RStudio for data analysis. Co-authored with Patrick Kennedy. Designed to empower new users with confidence and clarity.

Shiny Apps

🎲 Probability Distribution Viewer

This Shiny app lets users explore and calculate probabilities for normal, binomial, Poisson, and other distributions.

🦅️ US State/District Shape Quiz

This interactive quiz tests knowledge of US state shapes, capitals, and major cities. Built using leaflet.

🇩🇪 German Federal State Shape Quiz

A similar German geography quiz that tests users on the shapes and cities of Germany’s federal states.

🏀 NBA Player Finder

Explore current NBA rosters by conference, division, team, height, age, and jersey number in this app. It runs entirely in your browser via shinylive, with rosters refreshed weekly from the NBA API.

R Packages

I’ve authored or contributed to several R packages:

infer — tidyverse-style statistical inference
moderndive — companion to the ModernDive book
fivethirtyeight — access to FiveThirtyEight datasets
thesisdown — thesis templates in R Markdown
azflights24 — all out-bound flights from Arizona airports (PHX, TUS, and others) in 2024
nycflights23 — all out-bound flights from New York City airports in 2023
pnwflights22 — all out-bound flights from Seattle (SEA) and Portland (PDX) in 2022
volcanoes — Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program data on ~1,200 Holocene volcanoes, their eruptions, and individual events
olympicAthletes — every athlete-event participation in the modern Olympics, Athens 1896 through Milano-Cortina 2026 (~315,000 rows)
exoplanets — tidy data on confirmed exoplanets and their host stars from NASA’s Exoplanet Archive
steves — every episode of Rick Steves’ Europe (2000–2025), with ratings, geography, air dates, and summaries
izzyuntappd — my Untappd beer check-ins (Feb 2015–June 2016), plus an R Markdown template for analyzing them

Projects at Reed College

Teaching Tools

Chem 101/102 R templates and tools
→ Help Manual

Educational Outreach

Faculty & Student Support

Supported departments: Chemistry, Biology, Linguistics, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Mathematics
Assisted senior thesis students with data analysis and visualization
Provided R/R Markdown training for Chem 101/102 students