BMI trajectories & neighborhood disadvantage
Three BMI trajectories from adolescence into early midlife, and how neighborhood disadvantage shifts the odds of the steepest one.
Studio
Data visualizations from my published research, open-source tools, and the occasional experiment — the things I build when a question needs more than a table.
Visualizations
Alcohol & hypertension
Hypertension prevalence by drinking pattern, shown four ways (measured, diagnosed, undiagnosed, and composite).
Cohesion × length of residence
Two predicted-probability plots showing how the protective tie strengthens the longer adults stay put.
animation: the alcohol–CVD J-curve
Re-examining the J-curve
Watching the alcohol–cardiovascular mortality curve bend as abstainers are unpacked.
screenshot: BRFSS harmonization map
Harmonizing the BRFSS
A state-by-state view of how survey items line up — or don't — across years.
Tools
R package · in development
brfssdata
Programmatic access to 40 years of CDC BRFSS microdata (1985–2024). Survey years are cached as parquet and queried with DuckDB, returning tibbles or ready-made srvyr survey designs with era-correct weights and strata. The hosted parquet files also work from Python, Stata, SAS, Julia, and DuckDB.
Dashboard · R + Quarto
Grant Radar
A weekly dashboard that decompresses dense NIH funding notices into structured, searchable, scannable cards — hybrid rule + LLM pipeline, triage feed, deadline calendar.
Template
Quarto + Typst CV template
A reproducible, data-driven academic CV — entries live in YAML and BibTeX, and a single render produces the PDF.
Template
Quarto reveal.js presentation template
A polished, component-rich slide template with 20+ reusable components for academic and professional talks.
Shiny app
CIHS Course Waiver Evaluator
Scores student syllabi against departmental course content (local NLP, Ollama, and Claude API) and exports match scores as PDF reports.
Browser tool · JavaScript
csv2brightspace
Turns a readable spreadsheet of quiz questions into the vertical key-value CSV that Brightspace expects, and repairs import files broken by stray commas. Seven question types, nothing uploaded, runs entirely in the browser.
Experiments
sketch: random-walk fields
Generative · for fun
Random-walk mortality fields
Rendering hazard surfaces as flow fields — pretty, not peer-reviewed.
poster image
Poster series
NHANES in twelve numbers
One survey, twelve readable facts, set as a typographic poster.
Half-finished ideas and side quests — here for fun, not peer review.
From the community
Tools, methods, and techniques I've picked up from the open-source and research communities — a running list of what I'm learning and putting to use.
| Tool / method | Type | Where I found it | What I use it for |
|---|---|---|---|
| gtsummary | R package | R/Medicine community | Publication-ready Table 1 and regression tables. |
| targets | R package | rOpenSci | Reproducible, dependency-aware analysis pipelines. |
| tidymodels | Framework | Posit & community | Consistent machine-learning workflows for prediction. |
| Polars | Python library | PyData community | Fast wrangling of large national survey files. |
| SHAP | Method | ML interpretability literature | Explaining feature contributions in predictive models. |
| mapgl / MapLibre | Visualization | Spatial-data community | Interactive maps — like the one on my About page. |
A living list — updated as I pick up new packages, libraries, methods, and visualization techniques.