Biography

I am a Masters student in the DACSS program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; anticipated graduation Summer 2022. The day job is Senior Systems and Analytics Engineer at the Gandara Center in West Springfield, MA.

This site contains my academic blog with ruminations on computational social science, my own learning processes and discoveries, and related technical topics and snippets. The source of this site is on my Github .

Interests
  • Data analytics
  • Programming languages
  • The state of the world
Education

  • BA in Social Science, 1993

    Hampshire College

Recent Posts

Adding "Edit this page" links
Here’s how the cool Hugo/Wowchemy kids add those groovy “Edit this page” elements to their pages in the academic-starter theme: In config/_default/params.yaml, find the section edit_page and: ☞︎ Set repo_url to the URL of your repository (here, github)
Last updated on May 28, 2021 2 min read
Testing a new shortcode
Let’s see if we can get this shortcode working, which will allow us to embed a YouTube video with a start and end time. Here is Chris Bail, introducing topic models, dropping some knowledge about setting explicit seeds for reproducible results.
Last updated on May 28, 2021 1 min read
Let's be public
First off, a big H/T to Shilaan Alzahawi’s walkthrough of this process. I’d dabbled a bit with Hugo in other contexts, but as with most things web-related these days, there’s a steep curve coming in at zero, and she made it a whole lot easier to get this thing up and running.
Last updated on May 19, 2021 2 min read

Skills

R

50% (watch this space)

Statistics

30% (watch this space)

SQL

90%

Linux server sysadmin/ops

90%

PHP (don’t judge)

80%

I wish more people used Swift

20%

Lots of languages there aren’t icons for

80%

HTML (since before you were born)

80%

Classical drawing and painting

90%

Bread!

80%

Guitar

40%

Yamaha XSR 700 ❤️

70%

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