The unlikely success story of SnapTax

One advantage of WFH is the increased amount of quiet undisrupted time I get every morning – between coffee time and my “work” work time. I use the 1-hour window for reading. The #DailyThoughts series serves as a place to jog down my personal takes of the morning reading topics. Today I read about the […]

Display Github jupyter notebook in wordpress blog- the docker way

I was trying to create a centralized analysis knowledge repo for our data science and analysts team within my current organization and wanted to share here what I have tried and learned in terms of how to host this service. The project was inspired by airbnb knowledge repo project . Unfortunately, it requires a significant […]

UK traffic data visualization at RLadies chicago May meetup

Today I gave a lightning talk at RLadies Chicago to visualize UK traffic data over 10 years period. Specifically, I explored ways to look at police attendance rate and association with day of the week and time of the day. My presentation can be found here.  

My lecture on Confounding,Mediation and Effect modification

The lecture series is called “Statistically Speaking” and I just love the name. More details can be find here. My talk is on Oct 14th. There will be live video streaming for both campus and Tweeter Q&A session thanks for the marketing team! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PS, you can find the live stream for my talk here.

Using R and REDCap API to automate export/import dataset

I am working on the database design in REDCap for a cooperative NIH U grant and one functionality of this database we want to build is to track the bio-sample (plasma, DNA…)location (in transit, Lab1, Lab2…). It’s like the UPS tracking system where one can get real time update of the sample location. The idea is […]

JSM 2016

JSM Is One of the Largest Statistical Events in the World This year it will be held right next to my building in Chicago! More than 6,000 attendees from 52 countries Over 600 sessions, including invited, contributed sessions and poster presentations More than 1,000 student attendees 75+ employers hiring for more than 200 positions 90+ […]