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A snapshot of some CSS

Custom formatting of components in Quarto with divs

Quarto
Website
CSS

A few notes on implementing custom-styled sections in Quarto.

Mar 5, 2025
5 min
A screenshot of a quiz question

Quizzes and exercises for Quarto websites

Quarto
Website
CSS
Teaching

Some notes on implementing simple quizzes and exercises within Quarto based (teaching) websites.

Feb 25, 2025
8 min
Traceplot for several model parameters.

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data - part 6

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian
Stan

Part 6 of a tutorial showing how to fit directly with Stan and cmdstanr.

Feb 16, 2024
13 min
Density plot of priors and posteriors for several model parameters.

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data - part 5

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian
Stan

Part 5 of a tutorial showing how to fit directly with Stan and cmdstanr.

Feb 15, 2024
11 min
An AI generated image supposedly representing time versus impact

Time, Impact and AI

Productivity
Tools

Some musing about the relation of time and impact and how AI might or might not be useful.

Aug 4, 2023
16 min
An icon representing a goal

How to make custom callouts for Quarto

Quarto
Website
CSS

A brief tutorial on implementing callout style layouts in Quarto for those with rudimentary CSS/HTML skills like myself.

Jun 13, 2023
6 min

Migration from Hugo/blogdown/Wowchemy to Quarto

Quarto
Hugo
Website

I recently moved this website from a Hugo/blogdown/Wowchemy setup to Quarto. This contains a few thoughts and tips.

Oct 1, 2022
11 min

Exploring the flowdiagramr R package

R Package
Visualization

A brief post showing how to use the flowdiagramr R package to make flowcharts.

Jun 11, 2022
6 min

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data using brms and rethinking - part 4

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian

Some more musings and explorations that didn’t fit into the main posts of this series.

Feb 25, 2022
18 min

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data using brms and rethinking - part 3

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian

Part 3 of a tutorial showing how to fit Bayesian models using the brms package.

Feb 24, 2022
18 min

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data using brms and rethinking - part 2

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian

Part 2 of a tutorial showing how to fit Bayesian models using the rethinking package.

Feb 23, 2022
26 min

Bayesian analysis of longitudinal multilevel data using brms and rethinking - part 1

R
Data Analysis
Bayesian

Part 1 of a tutorial showing how to specify models and simulate data for a longitudinal multilevel setup.

Feb 22, 2022
35 min

Analysis of economic papers

A TidyTuesday exercise
R
Data Analysis
Tidy Tuesday

An exploration of some papers catalogued in NBER

Sep 30, 2021
8 min
Photo by (Clovis Cheminot)[https://pixabay.com/users/clovis_cheminot-949172/]/Pixabay

Create a GitHub website with distill in less than 30 minutes

R Markdown
GitHub
Website
distill

The following are step-by-step instructions for creating a website using R Markdown and the distill R package (through R Studio) and GitHub.

Mar 21, 2021
18 min
Photo by [200 Degrees](https://pixabay.com/users/200degrees-2051452)/Pixabay

Create a simple Markdown/GitHub website in less than 30 minutes

R Markdown
GitHub
Website
Tutorial

The following are step-by-step instructions for creating a fairly basic but still useful website using R Markdown (through R Studio) and Github.

Jan 11, 2021
18 min

Automatically generate personalized certificates and other documents with R

Tutorial
R Markdown

Examples for automatically creating customized PDF or Word documents using R and R Markdown

Oct 15, 2020
6 min

Custom Word formatting using R Markdown

R
R Markdown
Word
Tutorial

Turning R Markdown into a Word document that contains custom styling

Oct 7, 2020
4 min
Photo by Bernd Klutsch on Unsplash

Generating a conflict of interest form automatically

R
Grant Writing

Some code and examples showing how to generate a conflict of interest statement required by some funding agencies in an almost completely automated manner.

May 29, 2020
4 min
Photo by Rita Morais on Unsplash

Using R to analyze publications - part 2

Some examples using bibliometrix
R
Data Analysis
bibliometrics

Code and examples showing how to analyze meta-data for a set of publications using the bibilometrix R package.

Feb 2, 2020
6 min

Using R to analyze publications - part 1

Some examples using Google Scholar
R
Data Analysis
bibliometrics

Some code and examples showing how to process and analyze meta-data for a set of publications using the scholar R package.

Feb 1, 2020
7 min
Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash

Creating a website in less than 1 hour - part 2

Part 2 - adding GitHub to the workflow
blogdown
Hugo
GitHub
Tutorial
Website

This is part 2/2 of the website development posts, where we’ll move the website to GitHub.

Jan 20, 2020
7 min
Photo by Agence Olloweb on Unsplash

Creating a website in less than 1 hour - part 1

Part 1 - blogdown, Hugo and Netlify
blogdown
Hugo
GitHub
Tutorial
Website

The following are step-by-step instructions for creating your own website using blogdown, Hugo and Netlify.

Jan 19, 2020
19 min
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash

Research and teaching resources website

Teaching
Research

I posted my lists with materials related to research and teaching as a website.

Jan 8, 2020
1 min

Text analysis of a mid-semester course survey

R
Data Analysis
Teaching

Some simple data analysis applied to a mid-semester student survey of my Modern Applied Data Analysis course.

Oct 23, 2019
9 min

Analysis of pizza restaurants

A TidyTuesday exercise
R
Data Analysis
Tidy Tuesday

An analysis of TidyTuesday data for pizza restaurants and their ratings.

Oct 12, 2019
13 min
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