Rich Pauloo's nerd blog and scientific research page. http://richpauloo.github.io Here’s a boilied down method to configure add a custom domain (e.g., username.com) to your github pages website (e.g., username.github.io). Step 1 Buy a domain (e.g., richpauloo.com). I used godaddy.com, but you can use any number of domain name registries. Step 2 In your github.io repository Settings, add the domain... Sun, 17 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-11-17-Linking-a-Custom-Domain-to-Github-Pages/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-11-17-Linking-a-Custom-Domain-to-Github-Pages/ The Incredible Surge of Groundwater Extraction in California In California, groundwater extraction for agriculture has boomed over the past 75 years, and the average well drilled today has more than doubled in depth compared to wells drilled in 1940, according to Department of Water Resources data. If the animation above... Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-30-Race-to-the-Bottom/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-30-Race-to-the-Bottom/ bpwdc.utf8.md Summary For those short on ⏰: Checking the weather for a given location is simple ⛅ ✅. Checking the water quality is not as easy 🚰 ❌. To make water quality data in California easy to access and understand, I built a “weather app for water quality,” that enables... Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-16-A-water-quality-portal-for-California/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-16-A-water-quality-portal-for-California/ UPDATE This is now a package you can download on Github with devtools::install_github("richpauloo/textme"). First and foremost, tremendous credit is due to Sean Kross for the awesome twilio R package. I was running a pretty long geocoding job, and I ended up throwing a beepr::beep() into the console just so I... Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-11-Using-Twilio-to-text-myself-after-long-running-jobs/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-09-11-Using-Twilio-to-text-myself-after-long-running-jobs/ bp.utf8.md 5 minute read After years of investigation, the Department of Justice released a redacted copy of the Mueller Report on Thursday April 18, 2019. The report weighs in at a hefty 448 pages, and covers everything from Russian interference in 2016 presidential election, to the private testimony of Michael... Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-04-19-Text-Analysis-of-the-Mueller-Report/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2019-04-19-Text-Analysis-of-the-Mueller-Report/ 8 minute read I work on lots of projects at a time, and have adopted a few organizational techniques that help me stay focused, not lose my place, and write well-documented code. Below I write about a few practices of these practices. Organize your Directory Intentionally. Let’s say you have... Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-10-17-How-to-keep-your-R-projects-organized/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-10-17-How-to-keep-your-R-projects-organized/ 10 minute read After graduate school, I’ll probably apply to as many jobs as I can and see what sticks. But deep down, a career that integrates my domain knowledge of groundwater and California water with the broad field of data science is what I seek. So when the California... Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-10-11-Reflections-on-the-California-Water-Data-Challenge/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-10-11-Reflections-on-the-California-Water-Data-Challenge/ 5 minute read I was recently pretty impressed with Jupyter’s newest creation, the Jupyter Lab IDE. You can test drive an online demostration of Jupyter Lab with a Python and R kernel here. I downloaded a version, and found that the R Kernel was missing! To get the R kernel... Wed, 16 May 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-05-16-Installing-the-R-kernel-in-Jupyter-Lab/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-05-16-Installing-the-R-kernel-in-Jupyter-Lab/ Code Show All Code Hide All Code Summary Clean Calculate Map Thickness of perforated Interval Top of Perforated Interval: Aquifer Top (depth below sea level) Bottom of Perforated Interval: Aquifer Bottom (depth below sea level) References Authored by: Rich Pauloo, PhD Candidate in Hydrologic Sciences at UC Davis contact: rpauloo@ucdavis.edu... Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-03-15-Aquifer-thickness-and-elevation-determined-from-~300,000-well-logs/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-03-15-Aquifer-thickness-and-elevation-determined-from-~300,000-well-logs/ 10 minute read Slides from the conference Videos from the conference photo credit: Sharon Machlis Heading North on I-5, we pass by brown hills and palm trees as San Diego fades in the rear view mirror. The smell of last night’s beach bonfire wafts from our jackets stowed in the... Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0800 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-02-07-Reflections-on-Rstudio-conf-2018/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-02-07-Reflections-on-Rstudio-conf-2018/ 15 minute read This blog post is my attempt to process and expand on an excellent talk delivered by Andrew Bray at rstudio::conf2018. The slides (PDF) from Andrew’s presentation can be found at this github link. From Infer’s homepage: The objective of this package is to perform statistical inference using... Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0800 http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-02-03-Tidy-Chi-Squared-stats-in-infer/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2018-02-03-Tidy-Chi-Squared-stats-in-infer/ 5 minute read I recently came across the tidytext package in R, with the accompanying book: Text Mining in R by David Robinson and Julia Silge. I found it very cogent and practical for basic text mining and NLP problems. The book builds on tidy data principles, so a knowledge... Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0800 http://richpauloo.github.io/2017-12-29-Using-tidytext-to-make-word-clouds/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2017-12-29-Using-tidytext-to-make-word-clouds/ 5 minute read Note This is an .Rmd script that I put together for a workshop at the UC Davis R User’s Group. If you want to follow along with the script and exercies, you can find all of the material (including this .Rmd file) at this github repo. Enjoy!... Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0700 http://richpauloo.github.io/2017-10-27-RMarkdown-tutorial/ http://richpauloo.github.io/2017-10-27-RMarkdown-tutorial/