Once Upon a Time Series

Measuring What Matters: My personal 2024 OKRs

In this post, I’ll share my goals for this new year. Like most, I want 2024 to be #NewYearNewMe, so below I’ve outlined the measurable milestones that I’ll use to track my…

Let’s call it a wrap: My 2023 Year-in-Review

This year was one of many previously unimagined milestones for me – from earning my graduate degree, to becoming employed as a Data Scientist, to giving my first ever…

Second Time’s the Charm: How I successfully made it through my grad program

Attending CSU East Bay wasn’t my first time attempting grad school. The first time wasn’t a success, but I didn’t quit. Now, I’m Lydia Suzanne Gibson, MS.

It’s About Dang Time: Visualizing Time Series Data

In this blog post, which will be my first to include R code, I’d like to share some of the time series visualizations I’ve seen as I’ve been reading Data Visualization with R…

Leveling Up: How the R4DS Online Learning Community made me a better student

Online Communities

The R for Data Science (R4DS) Online Learning Community is a Slack community of R learners at all skill levels working together to improve their R programming and data…

Grad school strategies: How I survived the first year of my MS Stats program

Grades are important, but they aren’t everything. These are my thoughts on what else is needed to succeed in your first year of grad school.

A Student’s Guide to GitHub: Why I use GitHub and think you should too

My thoughts on why all statistics students should create a GitHub portfolio.