R

Just a few notes for those wondering how I built this site. I’m utilizing R with Yahui’s fantastic package blogdown.

Blogdown utilizes Hugo which is a website generator: it compiles a bunch of files so that they can be served in a website. The nice thing about Hugo is that being open source, it has a large community that contribute themes and plugins. While Hugo has many themes to choose from, I’ve had difficulties finding one that work well with blogdown.

useR! 2016 The useR! conference in Stanford was awesome. Never did I expect to see so many participants (read: data geeks) and high level sponsors. For what was a little known language that’s been around in one form or another since the late seventies, this is quite amazing. Some memorable talks: People are doing really amazing things with Shiny. I was amazed at the pervasiveness of Shiny at EA Games.