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Every week R4DS publishes a dataset on Tuesday for the community to promote learning and knowledge sharing. This week’s dataset is beers that have earned medals at the Great American Beer Festival from 1987 to 2020.

Like many people in the data science world, I am using the Hugo Academic theme with blogdown to create my website. Last week, I put a slide deck on my site using a tutorial from the Miller Lab.

If you’ve spent anytime on tech twitter in the last 48 hours, you might have noticed a lot of people dunking on a product called Genderify, an api for guessing the gender of clients based on their names or usernames.

Yesterday, like 90% of musical theater kids with internet connections, I spent yesterday watching the filmed version of Hamilton. (Yes, I am aware of a lot of the very legitimate criticism against Hamilton and Lin Manuel Miranda.

I’m a data scientist who took an unconventional path to the field. I’ve been a tech nerd since I was young (my AOL screenname was computergeek[birthday]), but developed a passion for statistics and teaching statistics while pursuing my undergraduate degree in psychology.