The summer, as always, is a super-busy time for us. Not only is work crazy with state reporting and fiscal year reporting, but my wife and I are always running around trying to suck the most out of every nice day before we hibernate. Add a toddler to that equation, and you end up with exactly zero free time. Which, of course, means it’s been a while since my last post.

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It’s a rainy Sunday here in NYC, and I have some time to reflect on the Lander Analytics RStatsNY conference I attended for the last few days. It was a whirlwind - tons of learning, laughs, shock and awe (redoc I’m looking at you), and of course a steady sprinkle of imposter syndrome and anxiety. I had an absolute blast, the survival analysis workshop was phenomenal and I’m already planning to trick my boss into sending me next year.

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Welcome, friends, to my first data post! So here’s the background: I love brazilian jiu jitsu (bjj). I did martial arts when I was a kid (bonus story at the end about my favorite martial art moment ever), but stopped going after I had a knee injury that sidelined me for several months. I’d always toyed with the idea of going back, but my wife made me realize how much I actually missed sports when I saw her being crazy active with her HIIT gym.

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Well this took me way too long to get up and running! But here we are :) Hello, and welcome! Why another R blog? I’m starting this blog for a few reasons. First, I want to use it as a way to document my own R journey. I figured I’d document it for lots of reasons: a way to showcase my own work, career development, networking, everyone in the R community says you should do it, blah blah blah.

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