Devan with a Ph
dbecker7.bsky.social
Devan with a Ph
@dbecker7.bsky.social
Assistant professor of statistics/data science at Wilfrid Laurier University
Thank you, that's very helpful!
August 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You mention that using R and Julia gives a wider array of approaches -including Bayesian models. I'm curious what you mean by this - will Julia make my Bayesian models better/easier?
August 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I've tried for a while, but I couldn't get the REPL to work in a convenient way and there wasn't a way to build quarto with a key combo. I've gotten spoiled by R-specific editors.
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And trees are made of what you breathe out!
December 29, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I choose to use the terminal because I like it! For most of what I do (updates, moving files, running code) Kubuntu tries to make me use a GUI (I've disabled Discover updater so many times yet it keeps coming back). Otherwise my workflow could be gui-only if I weren't a cli masochist.
December 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Are there any functions to "untidy" the data (i.e. pivot so that rows contain multiple observations), especially with prefixes or messy colnames only for the new columns? Although I guess this is pretty case-specific and I should just do this myself 😊
December 4, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Why oh why did I only learn about this now, after teaching a whole course in data wrangling and visualization?!? This looks awesome!
December 4, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Thank you!
December 3, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Wait, is there a reasoning behind the colours?
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Ome-ome is actually one of the keywords!
November 26, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I agree with this, but also please indent your R code well!
November 23, 2024 at 3:14 AM
I switched to the "aes as layer" idea a couple months ago and I love it! As a corollary, it makes a lot of code "one line = one idea". The data is declared inside ggplot, then we declare the aes in a different line. It makes it super easy to scan the code and see exactly what variables are at play!
November 23, 2024 at 3:10 AM