About

A Little Introduction

A New Hobby

My name is Will. I am not much of a programmer, but I am working on it. The first programming language I learned was R. I am trying to explore what I am capable of building with R and this site is one example of what someone can do. For me, this site is simply a place for me to track what I learn. I want a place to document my work and build a portfolio that I can reference later. In essence, this is site is a blog and my progress with programming and data analytics using R. Eventually I want plan to branch out and incorporate other languages for different tasks. I also hope others can find my random posts to be useful.

Los Angeles → Sacramento

I currently live in Sacramento. I moved from Los Angeles at the end of the summer of 2018.

I came to Sacramento to start my career working for LPC Consulting, Inc. as a research associate, but am now working for California Correctional Health Care Services as a research data analyst II.

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My Education & Exposure to R

Biola CGU

I got my B.A. in psychology from Biola University went on to get my M.A. in Positive Developmental Psychology & Evaluation from Claremont Graduate School. I graduated in May 2018.

I was first exposed to R in graduate school. It was an alternative to SPSS for our statistic courses. While in school, I did not fully realize the extent of what can be accomplished through this language. In the months that followed my time after CGU, I have gone down the R rabbit hole.

Moving Forward

I use R for all my data analytical work but I currently don’t get to spend all of my time in this environment. There is a lot I can still learn or get better at. I lack any formal computer science training, but there are many resources online that I am taking advantage of and learn more about programming. But no matter how much I read or watch videos, I need a place to apply it. This website is testimony to that.

I currently have a few broad goals for programming:

  • First, continue to get better with R.
  • Second, continue building this site.
  • Third, in the next year either contribute on someone else’s R package or write my own. I don’t require this to be a published project on CRAN, but I do plan to have it posted on Github.
  • Fourth, I want to learn other programming languages. I want to primarily get familiar with Python and SQL.

Final Thoughts

I don’t have high expectations for this site, but if you are taking the time to be on this site all I can say is that I am grateful. I hope you find the content interesting or able to learn a couple things yourself. Lastly, feel free to reach out to me if you would like to provide any feedback on this site, typos, suggest content, collaborate on a project, or just to connect with me.