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In Remembrance

Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968) is a foundational text in my subfield of linguistics. Entitled “Empirical foundations for a theory of language change,” it’s both a…

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Random Effects and Overdispersion

Today in my stats class, my students saw me realize, in real-time, that you can include random intercepts in poisson models that you couldn’t in ordinary gaussian models, and…

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Random effect priors, redo

For me, teaching stats this semester has turned into a journey of discovering what the distributional and ggdist packages can do for me. The way I make illustrative figures…

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Setting default ggplot2 colors

ggplot2

dataviz

This might be a “everyone else already knew about this” thing, but I’ve finally gotten to a place of understanding about setting default colors scales for ggplot2, so I…

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Building up a complex `{gt}` table.

Recently, for class notes on probability/the central limit theorem, I wanted to recreate the table of 2d6 values that I made here. A really cool thing I found between that…

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Rolling for Damage with the Central Limit Theorem

I’ve been playing a lot of Baldur’s Gate 3 lately. My party has gotten to max level, and we’re running around, casting spells and taking names.

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Troubleshooting RStudio for GitHub Classrom and Codespaces

A living document

I’m teaching a class on quantitative methods in linguistics, and after getting tired, over the years, of debugging everyone’s computer before we could get to the content of…

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Experimenting with Object Oriented Programming in R

I’ve been doing a lot of python development recently, and really leaning into object oriented programming for my projects. For example, in the aligned-textgrid package, I…

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Working with the Discrete Cosine Transform in R

I’ve been working a lot with the Discrete Cosine Transform in python, specifically as it’s implemented in scipy. But, I really prefer doing my data munging and stats in R.¹ W…

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Using FastTrackPy and aligned-textgrid

Last semester, I spent time co-developing some python packages:

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Some lessons in using Github Classroom and Codespaces

I’m currently teaching a computational linguistics course, and for just the second time, I’m using Github Classroom to manage assignments. I might make a few posts about…

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Thinking About Hierarchical Variance Parameters

I’m still thinking about priors, distributions, and logistic regressions. The fact that a fairly broad normal distribution in logit space turns into a bimodal distribution…

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Getting a sense of priors for logistic regression

This summer, I’ve been spending some time getting more familiar with the nitty-gritty of Bayesian models, and I’m working on some modelling in Stan for logistic regression.…

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Changing Project Defaults

I’ve moved a bunch of R defaults that I want for each post from .Rprofile into _defaults.R, and now run source(here::here("_defaults.R")) in each post where I want them.…

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Using Quarto Blogs for Teaching

This semester I was teaching two R intensive courses: Quantitative Investigations in the Social Sciences and Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. For both courses, I had…

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Simulating DND Rolls

I’ve recently started playing Dungeons and Dragons, and have been really enjoying the campaign my sibling runs. I’m still getting a handle on the mechanics, especially in…

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A handy dplyr function for linguistics

One of the new functions in dplyr v1.1.0 is dplyr::consecutive_id(), which strikes me as having a few good use cases for linguistic data. The one I’ll illustrate here is for…

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Making a Plotly Plot

plotly

I’m a bit nervous about investing time into an interactive plotting framework after getting burned by Google Motion Charts.¹ But, plotly seems to work even offline, which I…

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R Package Exploration (Jan 2023)

R

R package exploration

{ggforce}

{geomtextpath}

{ggdensity}

As I scroll through my feeds, I often come across a really cool looking package, or a new feature of a package, that I think looks really cool, and then I forget to go back…

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Making a spectrogram in R

how-to

r

I might flesh this out as a more detailed tutorial for LingMethodsHub, but for now this is going to be a rough-around-the-edges post about making spectrograms in R. My goal…

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Rising Wooders: Part 3

Part 3: The role of r-dissimilation

research

linguistics

This is part 3 of my blog posts to accompany my ADS2023 Poster.

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Rising Wooders: Part 2

Part 2: Saying Wooder

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linguistics

This is part 2 of my blog posts to accompany my ADS2023 Poster.

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Rising Wooders

Part 1: Talking about Wooder

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linguistics

This is a blog post to accompany my American Dialect Society poster.

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Github Onboarding with RStudio

I’m writing this primarily for students I’ll be teaching in Spring 2023 who I want to use Git/Github with Posit Workbench.

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What is R?

R

In the Spring 2023 semester, I’m going to be teaching two R intensive courses: a statistics for linguists course, and an R for the Arts and Sciences course. For both, I’m…

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A lesson in over-preparing

One of the courses I taught in the Fall 2022 semester was Natural Language Processing (NLP). It was a fun course to teach, and I learned a lot since it’s not a topic in my…

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