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June 8, 2026

Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, 2026 - AI and The Case for an Audit-First Mindset

As you delegate more to a model, your job shifts from doing the work to auditing it.

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May 3, 2018

Visualizing makeup data using R

How I used R to visualize data from a makeup API that I randomly stumbled across

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April 26, 2018

Explore messaging patterns on Facebook

Analyzing my Facebook message history with rvest and tidytext

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December 20, 2017

A gentle INLA tutorial

INLA is a nice (fast) alternative to MCMC for fitting Bayesian models

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November 29, 2017

From SAS to R

After working for a few years with academics who insisted on using SAS and growing to really enjoy using it, I’ve set myself out to learn R

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November 14, 2017

Social epidemiology and open source data

My favourite open-source data sets relating to social issues surrounding health

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November 13, 2017

Accreditation of statisticians in Canada

The benefits of receiving an accreditation as an associate statistician from the Statistical Society of Canada

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