Featured Work

• Sitemaps SEO pre-post analysis with time series modeling
• R packages related to or affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation
• Discovery Dashboards, a set of R/Shiny-powered dashboards for tracking KPIs and other metrics

Miscellaneous Works and Links

• Hiring a Data Scientist (Wikimedia Blog Post)
  Discovery's process from writing an inclusive job description that attracts a diverse pool of candidates to designing a take-home task to building interview questions.
• Puppetizing Discovery Dashboards (Wikimedia Blog Post)
  Why and how we switched to a Puppet-based configuration for our R/Shiny-based metrics dashboards. In this post we also share resources and tips for learning Puppet for non-Technical Operations (Ops) people, and — as an educational exercise for newcomers — explain how the new configuration works.
• How we made that net neutrality clickstream diagram (Wikimedia Blog Post)
  To illustrate the post on Wikipedia clickstream ‘rabbit holes’, I used R to create a net neutrality clickstream diagram. An overview of core graph theory terms is provided, along with brief introductions to R packages igraph, ggplot2, and ggraph.
• Twitter bots powered by Wikipedia: An interview with Darius Kazemi, internet artist (Wikimedia Blog Post)
• Open knowledge in R with Wikimedia APIs presented at Cascadia R Conference in Portland, OR on 3 June 2017
  • Presentation slides as a PDF file
  • Markdown-formatted version for following along with the presentation