Hi, I'm John! I studied biochemistry and math during college but discovered a passion for programming R through my undergraduate research. During my PhD in biomedical engineering, I became an expert in R programming as I used R constantly to organize, analyze, and visualize data. I also have experience helping others learn. I tutored other college students for my college's tutoring center during multiple semesters of college, was a graduate teaching assistant for two classes, and taught R and Github workshops during graduate school. I want to help you be successful at whatever you are doing and to enjoy R programming as much as I do!

I have over 6 years of R programming experience that includes developing R packages and teaching R workshops. I developed two Bioconductor R packages during my bioinformatics-focused PhD which have been published in scientific journal articles. In addition to knowing the R language, I also have experience applying R to analyze big datasets and creating informative, good-looking plots for presentations and papers.

I can teach you the ins and outs of R, from basic to expert. I know programming can be intimidating when you are getting started. If you are new to R, I will be encouraging and focus on helping you gain a better understanding of foundational ideas and practical aspects of R. If you have some experience already, I can help you take your skills to the next level. I have a lot of experience with topics like visualization with ggplot, working with big data using the data.table package, and working with data using tidyverse packages. We can also talk about using R for statistics and machine learning. I can walk you through a topic in R that you are interested in or review your code to suggest improvements and answer questions. I am here to help you so our lesson will be flexible and tailored to meet your goals.

I am a patient and supportive instructor, whatever your knowledge level. Contact me about lessons so I can help you progress on your R programming journey!