News

2022

September

I was invited to a Korean data science podcast dataholic (데이터홀릭) to talk about my experience presenting at the RStudio and useR conferences! Part 1, Part 2

August

I led a workshop on IBEX and PCIbex with Nayoun Kim at the Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL 2022).

July

I attended my first in-person R conference at rstudio::conf(2022) and gave a talk on ggplot internals.

June

I gave a talk on my package {ggtrace} at the useR! 2022 conference. I was awarded the diversity scholarship which covered my registration and workshop fees. My reflections
I gave a talk at RLadies philly on using dplyr’s slice() function for row-relational operations.

2021

July

My tutorial on custom fonts in R was featured as a highlight on the R Weekly podcast!

June

I gave a talk at RLadies philly on using icon fonts for data viz! I also wrote a follow-up blog post that goes deeper into font rendering in R.

May

SnowGlobe, a project started in my undergrad, was featured in an article by the Northwestern University Library. We also had a workshop for SnowGlobe which drew participants from over a hundred universities!

January

I joined Nayoun Kim for a workshop on experimental syntax conducted in Korean and held at Sungkyunkwan University (Korea). I helped design materials for a session on scripting online experiments with IBEX, including interactive slides made with R!

2020

November

I joined designer Will Chase on his stream to talk about the psycholinguistics of speech production for a data viz project on Michael’s speech errors in The Office. It was a very cool and unique opportunity to bring my two interests together!

October

My tutorial on {ggplot2} stat_*() functions was featured as a highlight on the R Weekly podcast, which curates weekly updates from the R community.
I became a data science tutor at MindCORE to help researchers at Penn with data visualization and R programming.

September

I have moved to Philadelphia to start my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania!

June

I graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Linguistics (with honors)! I was also elected into Phi Beta Kappa and appointed as the Senior Marshal for Linguistics.