Monica Gerber

Netlify

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

So far, we’ve been leveraging GitHub Pages for publishing. This works great, but for blogdown we’ll start using Netlify. Let’s start RIGHT NOW with a site we’ve already built and published.

Pre-requisites

Pick either your postcards site, or your distill site from day 01. Refresh your memory- which repository was it again?

A GitHub profile

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Profile

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/personalizing-your-profile

Pin projects to profile

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/pinning-items-to-your-profile

Profile README

This is new! Let’s do it:

Prework

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Introducing Yourself Online workshop! We look forward to meeting you. Before attending the workshop, please complete the following prework.

Set up RStudio Cloud

Sign up for a free RStudio Cloud account at https://rstudio.cloud/ before the workshop. I recommend logging in with an existing Google or GitHub account, if you have one (rather than creating a new account with another password you have to remember). I want you to be able to work from your own laptop in this workshop, but Cloud is an important back-up plan should you run into troubles.

A postcard

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-requisites

First, make sure you have the latest version of the postcards package installed from CRAN:

install.packages("postcards")

Restart your R session. If you use RStudio, use the menu item Session > Restart R or the associated keyboard shortcut:

Ctrl + Shift + F10 (Windows and Linux) or
Command + Shift + F10 (Mac OS).

packageVersion("postcards")
[1] ‘0.2.0’

Create GitHub repo

Online.

Using blogdown

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-requisites

First, make sure you have the latest version of the blogdown package installed from CRAN:

install.packages("blogdoown")

Restart your R session. If you use RStudio, use the menu item Session > Restart R or the associated keyboard shortcut:

Ctrl + Shift + F10 (Windows and Linux) or
Command + Shift + F10 (Mac OS).

packageVersion("blogdown")
[1] ‘1.0’

Create GitHub repo

Online.

A distill site

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-requisites

First, make sure you have the latest version of the distill package installed from CRAN:

install.packages("distill")

Restart your R session. If you use RStudio, use the menu item Session > Restart R or the associated keyboard shortcut:

Ctrl + Shift + F10 (Windows and Linux) or
Command + Shift + F10 (Mac OS).

packageVersion("distill")
# [1] ‘1.2’

Create GitHub repo

Online.

Warm woolen mittens

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I'm the here-bot cat!

Use me to find your way in your website.

Here I am:: content/collection/day02/03-blogdown/index.md

To remove me, delete this line inside that file: {{< here >}}

My content section is:: collection

My layout is:: single-series

part 2!

does this work?

now for some very cool things

get ready!

Solving the lonely data scientist problem

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

There is a well documented problem across statisticians, data scientists, and data analysts. Whether they are an isolated data scientist or are embedded on a team of statisticians, they tend to do their work alone. Even if your team is using git and GitHub, it doesn’t mean that people are reading each other’s code.

The longer that I worked as a statistician on research teams, the more I became convinced that code review should be a key component of this job and would solve the problem of working in isolation. How else would I grow and if I wasn’t looking at others’ work and having someone review mine? If you are a writer or editor, one of the key ways you get better at your craft is by reading widely and sharing drafts. I started advocating for a code review system in my group. However, each time I tried to implement this practice it felt like it never really stuck.

Contact

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:38:41 -0600

** Contact page don’t contain a body, just the front matter above. See form.html in the layouts folder.

Formspree requires a (free) account and new form to be set up. The link is made on the final published url in the field: Restrict to Domain. It is possible to register up to 2 emails free and you can select which one you want the forms to go to within Formspree in the Settings tab. **

Typography Styles & Element Examples

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:27:33 -0600

Font Sizes

A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
6rem (96px)	5rem (80px)	3rem (48px)	2.25rem (36px)	1.5rem (24px)	1.25rem (20px)	1rem (16px)	.875rem (14px)

Type Samples

Headline

Subheadline

Level 1 Heading

One page to rule them all...well, not really. This page displays sample typography and page elements to illustrate their style. Things like headings and paragraphs showing the beautiful type scale, form elements, tabular data, and image layouts just to name a few.

Roundup of growth chart packages

Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

At rOpenSci’s annual unconf, I suggested a project to work on functions that convert physical growth measurements into z-scores and percentiles. For example, researchers in the United States studying childhood obesity often calculate the BMI z-score or percentage of the 95th percentile of BMI from nationally representative survey data.

During the process of brainstorming and working on this project, the team¹ I was working with found out some related R packages that do this. To help us move forward with the project and identify next steps, I round up these packages below.² If I’m missing something, please comment so I can add it to this post!

Reflections on rstudio::conf 2018

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a couple of months since rstudio::conf 2018 and I’m still mulling over what I learned in 2 days in San Diego. I grew up in the sunshine of San Diego, so it was good to be back and also feel inspired by the amazing energy of the R community. Here’s a reflection on what the conference was like, what ideas I’ve been running with, and how what I learned will change what I do over the course of the next year.

A little bit of Monica in my life

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

One analysis in the R community that caught my attention is Hilary Parker’s analysis of the most poisoned baby name in US history. I was surprised that my own name didn’t show up in the analysis. If Hilary had a huge loss in 1993, what happened to Monica in 1999?

For a period when I was a kid the name ‘Monica’ is what made the adults turn down the NPR broadcast. Its entrance into popular culture due to the Clinton Impeachment, a shoutout in Mambo No. 5, and also being name of the the least likable roommate on Friends (#bossy)¹, wasn’t exactly the kind of material that was going to make me cool.

Hello, world!

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

About my work

My name is Monica Gerber and I am a Biostatistician located in Boston, Massachusetts. I started working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in January 2015, when I joined the Department of Psychiatry to work in a research group focused on population mental health. Currently, I work in General Academic Pediatrics and the Center for Community Health Improvement (CCHI).

At MGH I have the pleasure of working on many research and evaluation projects. In General Academic Pediatrics I work on several maternal and childhood obesity research studies. At CCHI, I help the evaluation team develop statistical analyses to understand the public health status of Boston’s communities and to evaluate prevention efforts. I am also the Principal Investigator of the Health Starts at Home implementation study which provides services to stabilize housing.

Contributors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you to all the folks who have contributed both technical and creative skills to this project:

Desirée De Leon 🦒 (designed 5 of the custom color themes, made illustrations for the workshop, and provided general aesthetic feedback along the way)
Garrick Aden-Buie 🧙 (debugged headroom.js and lent his panelset.js code to the theme)
Allison Horst 🐕 (awesome illustrations of campfires, seedlings, and evergreens, as well as my R Markdown hedgehog mascot 🦔)

License

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Monica Gerber

Netlify

Pre-requisites

A GitHub profile

Profile

Pin projects to profile

Profile README

Prework

Set up RStudio Cloud

A postcard

Pre-requisites

Create GitHub repo

Using blogdown

Pre-requisites

Create GitHub repo

A distill site

Pre-requisites

Create GitHub repo

Warm woolen mittens

part 2!

does this work?

now for some very cool things

more

get ready!

Solving the lonely data scientist problem

Contact

Typography Styles & Element Examples

Font Sizes

Type Samples

Head­line

Sub­head­line

Level 1 Heading

Roundup of growth chart packages

Reflections on rstudio::conf 2018

A little bit of Monica in my life

Hello, world!

About my work

Contributors

License

Headline

Subheadline