Recent Posts

Understanding the data (error) generating processes for data validation

A data consumer’s guide to validating data based on the failure modes data producer’s try to avoid

A Tale of Six States: Flexible data extraction with scraping and browser automation

Exploring how Playwright's headless browser automation (and its friends) can help unite the states’ data

Embedding column-name contracts in data pipelines with dbt

dbt supercharges SQL with Jinja templating, macros, and testing – all of which can be customized to enforce controlled vocabularies and their implied contracts on a data model

Causal design patterns for data analysts

An informal primer to causal analysis designs and data structures

Resource Round-Up: Causal Inference

Free books, lectures, blogs, papers, and more for a causal inference crash course

Talks

Column Names as Contracts

Exploring the benefits of using controlled vocabularies to encode metadata in column names, and demonstrations of implementing this approach with the convo R package or dbt extensions of SQL.

oRganization: Design patterns for internal packages

An overview of the unique design challenges and opportunities when building R packages for use inside of a single organization versus open-source. By using the jobs-to-be-done framework, this talk explores how internal packages can be better teammates by following specific design patterns for API design, testing, documentaiton, and more.

projmgr: Managing the human dependencies of your project

A lightning talk on key features of the projmgr package

RMarkdown Driven Development

How and why to refactor one time analyses in RMarkdown into sustainable data products

tidycf: Turning analysis on its head by turning cashflows on their side

An overview of how the tidycf R package led to process and cultural change at Capital One

Projects

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dbtplyr

dbt package bringing dplyr semantics to SQL

convo

R package for managing controlled vocabularies

satRday Chicago Conference Organizer

Speaker & Sponsor lead for 2019 and 2020

Rtistic

Hackathon-in-a-box templates for custom Rmd and ggplot2 themes

projmgr

R package providing project management interface to GitHub

Publications

97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Contributed six chapters on tops ranging from data design, development, validation, and democratization

R Markdown Cookbook

This cookbook contains tips and tricks to help you get the most out of R Markdown. Topics include the automated generation of content (diagrams, text), customizing format (Pandoc, HTML, and LaTeX templates), workflow improvements (modularizing child documents, cross-referencing code chunks, chunk caching), modifying rendering behavior with hooks, and using alternative language engines.