A Handy Reference

An ode to being a really forgetful person

My bookmarks bar and folder of saved Tweets are graveyards full of wonderful resources that I have promised myself I’d return to at a later time and never did. Here, I’ve compiled and organized a list of some of these links for easy access! Out of sight, out of mind, right?

Links, links, and more links! 🔗

Some handy definitions

1. The Catalogue of Bias

For new R converts

1. Swirl
2. DiscovR
3. TinyStats
4. R4DS

For tech enthusiasts only

1. Posit’s Cheat Sheets
2. ScrollyTell
3. Annotating Quarto Code
4. Base R Plotting Tips
5. SQL Cheat Sheet
6. Docker & Containers
7. Gorgeous R Tables
8. Writing R Packages
9. The R Inferno

Honestly, ggplot2 deserves its own category

1. Five ggplot tricks Nicola Rennie wishes she knew earlier
2. How Cedric Scherer levels up his ggplots
3. Adding ggplots to your gt tables

Methods tutorials I’ve found useful

1. Linear Mixed Modeling

Data, data, and more data

1. General Social Survey
2. Kaggle
3. UC Irvine Repo
4. StatSci
5. Data is Plural Spreadsheet (thanks to Jeremy Singer)
6. Rdatasets Package (thanks to Vincent Arel-Bundock)
7. DataSetsVerse Package (thanks to Andres Renzo Caceres Rossi)
8. DiversityDataKids

Some professional advice and opportunities

1. ASA Postdoc Association
2. ENAR CENS (Council for Emerging and New Statisticians)

Funding opportunities for early career folks

1. ASA Early Career Travel Fund
2. ENAR Fostering Excellence Grant
3. A Collection of Conference Travel Grants

Some miscellaneous items

1. Paul’s Online Math Notes: Everything You Ever Needed in Calculus

Time for a plot twist 📖

I often have the same problem in movie theaters. I’ll sit through a preview of an upcoming film, get excited about it, and then promptly forget about it until it pops up on my Netflix about a year and a half later. Here’s a link to some of the upcoming movies in the last few months of 2024!