Resources

Here are some of my favorite resources - a mixture of books, tutorials, blogs, podcasts and YouTube, and software.

Books

Here are some of my favorite books

Title	Author	Note
The Design of Everyday Things	Donald A. Norman	As applicable to programming as it is to the design of toilets
The First 90 Days	Michael D. Watkins	A great resource for anyone starting a new job - recommended by Lura Long
The Checklist Manifesto	Atul Gawande	Gawande is one of my favorite writers at the intersection of science and medicine.
How big things get done	Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner	Should be required reading for anyone working on projects with teams - recommended by Nicole Mirea
R for Data Science	Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund	A great resource for learning R
Writing R Packages	Hadley Wickham	The bible of R package development
It	Stephen King	I just wish they would print it in two separate volumes

Here are some of my favorite online tutorials and guides

Title	Author	Notes
Survival Analysis in R	Emily Zabor	A great introduction to survival analysis in R (by a fellow Grinnellian!)

Here are some blogs I like by companies and people I admire

Title	Notes
RStudio Blog	The RStudio blog is a great resource for learning about new features in RStudio and R
Danielle Navarro	Danielle Navarro is a cognitive scientist who writes about statistics and programming in R. I was :this: close to joining her for a Postdoc in Sydney. I often wonder how my life would have turn out differently if I had
Emily Riederer	Emily Riederer is a leading voice in modern data science

Here are some of my favorite podcasts and YouTube channels

Title	Favorite Episodes
Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford	Wrong Tools Cost Lives

Here are some of my favorite software tools

Tool	Notes
Notion	I use Notion for project management and note-taking
RStudio	I use RStudio for all of my R programming
GitHub Copilot	I use GitHub Copilot to help me write code