I love purrr.¹ Aside from its anonymous function notation, one of the functions that made me love the package was at_depth, which iterates across a list at a specified level of nesting. It has since been deprecated in favor of modify_depth, which is more powerful, but is significantly more finicky.

Since Thomas Lin Pedersen took over gganimate, I’ve been building animations. Mostly what I’ve built is not for any particular data visualization purpose. My motivations vary, but have included

I have been working on my Bayesian statistics skills recently. In particular, I have been reading David Robinson’s lovely Introduction to Empirical Bayes: Examples from Baseball Statistics and watching Rasmus Bååth’s delightful three-part Video Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis, notable amongst other videos, courses, and textbooks. I have much yet to learn, but my past experience with statistics has taught me that I understand concepts most thoroughly by actually implementing them. Thus,…