Top Posts

Causal design patterns for data analysts

An informal primer to causal analysis designs and data structures
Jan 30, 2021 causal, data, tutorial

Building a team of internal R packages

On the jobs-to-be-done and design principles for internal tools
Jan 21, 2021 rstats, pkgdev, jtbd

Column Names as Contracts

Using controlled dictionaries for low-touch documentation, validation, and usability of tabular data
Sep 6, 2020 data, workflow, rstats

RMarkdown Driven Development (RmdDD)

A workflow for refactoring one-time analyses to sustainable data products
May 4, 2019 pkgdev, rmarkdown, rstats, workflow

Recent Posts

Make grouping a first-class citizen in data quality checks

Which of these numbers doesn’t belong? -1, 0, 1, NA. You can’t judge data quality without data context, so our tools should enable as much context as possible.
Nov 27, 2021 data

Why machine learning hates vegetables

A personal encounter with ‘intelligent’ data products gone wrong
Nov 10, 2021 data-disasters

A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack

A right-sized solution to automated data monitoring, alerting, and reporting using R (pointblank, projmgr), GitHub (Actions, Pages, issues), and Slack
Aug 26, 2021 rstats, data

Workflows for querying databases via R

Simple, self-contained, reproducible examples are a common part of good software documentation. However, in the spirit of brevity, these examples often do not demonstrate the most sustainable or flexible workflows for integrating software tools into large projects.
Jul 14, 2021 rstats, workflow, sql

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
May 27, 2021 data
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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.
Feb 25, 2021 11:00 AM University of Toronto | Chicago
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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.
Jan 21, 2021 11:00 AM rstudio::global(2021)
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projmgr: Managing the human dependencies of your project

A lightning talk on key features of the projmgr package
Jul 6, 2020 11:00 AM UseR!2020
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RMarkdown Driven Development

How and why to refactor one time analyses in RMarkdown into sustainable data products
Jan 30, 2020 11:00 AM rstudio::conf(2020) | csv,conf,v5
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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
Jan 31, 2018 11:00 AM rstudio::conf(2018) | EARL Boston | RLadies Chicago
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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
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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.
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Topics

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