Please allow me to introduce myself :). I am a post-doctoral fellow and epidemiologist at Colorado State University in the Rojas Public Health Lab. I graduated with my PhD from the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in 2020.
The focus of my research at Emory was studying the impact of bicycle infrastructure on bicycling in Atlanta and on bicycle safety. I also did methodological research focusing on study designs to make epidemiologic use of data generated from smartphones, which is often aggregated by location.
I’ve been using R as my main software to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data since 2017. Before then, I mainly used SAS to manage and analyze aspatial (i.e., typical rectangular) data and Esri ArcGIS for managing spatial data and mapping.
Upon entering the world of R, I was amazed to learn that both of these analysis workflows (aspatial and spatial) could be accomplished using R. And I was hooked.
I view R first through the lens of a public-health researcher. That is, I use R as a tool to manipulate and analyze data for the purpose of answering public-health-related research questions.
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