Talks, Workshops, and Courses

Data science workflows in JavaScript

A 3-part workshop series on gaining insights from real world data in JavaScript, introducing tools and options for steps in the data science workflow from data access to…

Introduction to data wrangling and analysis in JavaScript

A 4-session introductory JavaScript course with a focus on accessing, wrangling, and analyzing data.

The untold story of palmerpenguins

Abstract: The palmerpenguins R package provides a modern, approachable dataset containing body size measurements for three penguin species that nest on islands throughout…

Making monsters - Where they came from, what they’ve taught me, and how you can make them, too

Invited talk for NCEAS Roundtable. Art can provide a welcoming entryway for learners to engage with sometimes intimidating coding skills. In the first half of this session…

R Markdown for fun, functional and reproducible reporting

A 1-hour code-along workshop on R Markdown for reproducible data science and reporting for the 2022 Urban Drainage Modeling Conference, hosted by the Southern California…

Missing the point - missing values, misinterpretations, and missed opportunities in environmental data science

Invited plenary talk for the Urban Drainage Modeling Conference, hybrid remote and at SCCWRP.

Introducing UCSB’s New Master of Environmental Data Science Program

Invited presentation at the 2021 UCSB Data Science Summit.

Tips & tools for gentle R introductions

An invited talk on strategies for introducing beginners to R for UCSB’s Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences program.

Creative Contributions and Activities for Student Engagement and Learning in Data Science Education

An invited talk for the Developing and Maintaining Open Source Resources for Statistics and Data Science Education Session, JSM 2021.

Leveraging data richness of the Long Term Ecological Research Network for an R datasets package

A regular talk at the 2021 ESA Conference, highlighting our work to make an R package containing one data sample from each site in the US LTER Network.

Developing a datasets based R package to teach environmental data science

Presented virtually at the useR!2021 Conference [Slides]

Creativity to learn, creativity to teach.

Presentation for the education session of the 2021 Data Science by Design Creator Conference.

Tired - iris. Wired - penguins.

A flash talk on the new palmerpenguins package in R for the Santa Barbara R Users Group.

R-Ladies Tunis & R-Ladies Dammam Workshop: A Quick Flight to the Edge of the Tidyverse

A 2-hour code-along “Quick Flight to the Edge of the Tidyverse” with R-Ladies.

UCSB QMSS Workshop - Level up in R Markdown

A workshop for UCSB’s Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences program.

Art lessons - A year as RStudio’s Artist-in-Residence

My rstudio::conf2021 on motivation and lessons learned from my time as RStudio’s first artist-in-residence.

Illustrating R - Creative contributions for R education and engagement

An invited talk for NHS-R on creative contributions in data science education.

Art in Data Science Education

An invited talk for UCSB Graduate Students for Diversity in STEM

How to Become a Missing Explorer

A talk and interactive tutorial at the Bren School (UC Santa Barbara) on why and how we should think about missing values in our environmental data, and how we can use Nick…

R for Excel Users Workshop at RStudio Conference 2020

A 2-day workshop to get Excel users and R beginners up-and-running with the basic tools, reproducible workflows and supportive communities for the modern R user.

SCCWRP Data Visualization Workshop

A 1/2 day basics of data visualization workshop on responsible and effective data visualization for the Southern California Coastal Watershed Research Program (SCCWRP).

SB R-Ladies Intro to (spooky) Shiny

A 1-hour introduction to Shiny in R, led during a Santa Barbara R-Ladies session in Oct 2019.

Quantitative skills and R/RStudio workshop for incoming Bren PhD students

An intensive 7-day workshop to refresh quantitative skills (quantitative thinking, algebra, calculus, probability, hypothesis testing, regress) and introduce PhD students to…

Bren alumni R-refresher workshop

A 4-session refresher/reintroduction to data wrangling and visualization with the tidyverse, building Shiny apps, and an intro to working with and visualizing spatial data…

Intro to ggplot2 for eco-data-science

A gentle 2-hour introduction to building and customizing plots with ggplot2, presented at UCSB Eco-Data-Science.