This weekend (September 26 & 27), I will be partaking in my first Software Carpentry bootcamp, held right here at ASU. I will be helping with some of the sessions myself, but otherwise I look forward to learning some R and SQL skills with some like-minded peers.

For the uninitiated, Software …

The last time I tried keeping a blog was when I was around 20 years old, and the topics of the day were mainly of interest to only 20-year-old me. I was just coming out as gay, learning to deal with feelings I didn’t understand. I spent a lot …