Tips

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

I’ll do my best to keep this updated but it will almost certainly be out of date by the time you read it. If you have any suggestions for resources I should add, please let me know.

Books

Here are some of my favorite books

• The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman
  • As applicable to programming as it is to the design of doors
• 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

Tutorials

Here are some of my favorite online tutorials and guides

• Survival Analysis in R, Emily Zabor
  • A great introduction to survival analysis in R (by a fellow Grinnellian!)

Blogs

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

• Danielle Navarro, Danielle Navarro is a cognitive scientist who writes about statistics and programming in R.
• Emily Riederer. Emily Riederer is a leading voice in modern data science across multiple languages and platforms.
• Emily Zabor. Emily Zabor is an expert in epidemiology and public health who writes about data science and statistics in R

Podcasts and YouTube

Here are some of my favorite podcasts and YouTube channels

• Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford | Wrong Tools Cost Lives|

Software

Here are some of my favorite software tools

• Notion. I use Notion for everything from project management to personal notes
• RStudio. My favorite IDE for data science development
• GitHub Copilot. Copilot is spectatular, especially using the RStudio Copilot Plugin
• Quarto. The successor to my beloved RMarkdown which powers just about every document I create (including this website).