figure: alcohol × hypertension
Alcohol & hypertension, as a surface
How binge frequency and drinking volume jointly track blood-pressure risk across a national sample.
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
animation: cohesion × length of residence
Cohesion × length of residence
An animated build of 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
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.
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Rendering hazard surfaces as flow fields — pretty, not peer-reviewed.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.