Hi, I’m Dan
Economist. Freelancer. R Instructor.
This personal website primarily focuses on R, and helping others realize that R isn’t as hard as you may think. With a handy set of packages, and real-world instruction, R can be an excellent skill to add to your toolbelt if you’re an academic, Excel pro, business owner, or someone just looking to learn a new, fun talent!
The Journey
R has a learning curve, there’s no question about it. And ten years ago, it very-well may have been a time-consuming language to learn. Today, though, there are many excellent packages built by people much smarter than myself that make learning R relatively easy without sacrificing the power and freedom that makes the language great.
My goal with this website is simple: Make your R journey easier and help you find the same appreciation for it that I have.
My journey towards teaching others how to code in R started during my Ph.D. program. After finishing, I started helping other academics clean and analyze their data in R. From there, the world of teaching R seems to be the perfect combination of my interests - teaching and coding.
Through become a Top-Rated Plus and Expert-Vetted freelancer after less than a year on Upwork - I have helped dozens of people solve their coding problems in R to clean their data, communicate results, and create Shiny apps to interact with their data sets.
I figured it was time to finally get a lot of this stuff down on (digital) paper so I can hopefully help you solve the problems you encounter as well.
Everything from the basics to advanced concepts will be covered here. If you’re more of a visual learner, YouTube content will be published along with each blog post so you can consume the content in the way that best suits your learning style.
You can subscribe to my YouTube channel here
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