My interests include statistics, data analysis, education, and programming in R and Python. I have a blog about statistics and programming.

Books

• Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach: a guide to drawing insights from text using the tidytext package in R. Co-authored with Julia Silge, and published by O'Reilly in July 2017. Also available for free online.
• Introduction to Empirical Bayes: Examples from Baseball Statistics. An e-book demonstrating the statistical method of empirical Bayes, based on the example of estimating baseball batting averages.

Software

• broom: Convert messy model outputs to a tidy format, for use with tools such as dplyr and tidyr.
• fuzzyjoin: Join tables based on inexact matching of columns
• tidytext: Analyze text using tidy packages such as dplyr, ggplot2, and tidyr
• stackr: R package for connecting to the Stack Exchange API